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PPE: FALL PROTECTION
All Safety Managers Need to Know the Dangers of Dropped Objects
Tools are essentially for workers at height to do their job, but they also pose risks to those below.
BY ANNE OSBOURN
By now, we are all familiar with the dangers that working at heights pose to our work- ers. Compliance goes up every year as more workers don harness and tie off when
they’re high above the ground. The key to remember is that each man or woman up on the top of a sky- scraper is there doing a job, and likely requires tools
to finish the work. Those tools present an additional danger to those below, as accidents happen when they are dropped from heights. In 2017, 278 fatalities oc- curred from being “struck by falling objects” accord- ing to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As a Safety Man- ager, ANSI/ISEA 121-2018 helps you better protect your workers.
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