• Fall Protection Awareness Training

    Fall Protection Awareness Training

  • 1. Purpose

  • The purpose of this training is to make workers aware of fall protection procedures that will help prevent injury to employees while performing work assignments at elevated levels.

  • 2. Scope

  • This training is required of all CDH Consulting employees who work at a height of 4 feet for oil and gas exploration operations, and 6 feet for construction operations where guardrails or nets are not utilized. 

  • 3. Definitions

  • Anchorage: a secure point of attachment for lifelines, lanyards or deceleration devices

    Buckle: any device for holding the body harness closed around the employee's body

    Carabineer: same as Snaphook

    Deceleration device: any mechanism, such as a rope grab, rip-stitch lanyard, specially-woven lanyard, tearing or deforming lanyards, automatic self-retracting lifelines/lanyards, etc., which serves to dissipate a substantial amount of energy during a fall arrest, or otherwise limit the energy imposed on an employee during fall arrest

    Deceleration distance: the additional vertical distance a falling employee travels, excluding lifeline elongation and free fall distance, before stopping, from the point at which the deceleration device begins to operate. It is measured as the distance between the location of body harness attachment point (D-ring) before a fall and the location of that attachment point after the employee comes to a full stop

    Lanyard: a flexible line of rope, wire rope, or strap which generally has a connector at each end for connecting the body harness to a deceleration device, lifeline, or anchorage

    Lifeline: means a component consisting of a flexible line for connection to an anchorage at one end to hang vertically (vertical lifeline), or for connection to anchorages at both ends to stretch horizontally (horizontal lifeline), and which serves as a means for connecting other components of a personal fall arrest system to the anchorage

    Personal fall arrest system: means a system used to arrest an employee in a fall from a working level. It consists of an anchorage, connectors, a body harness and may include a lanyard, deceleration device, lifeline, or suitable combinations of these

    Positioning device system: means a body harness system rigged to allow an employee to be supported on an elevated vertical surface, such as a wall, and work with both hands-free while leaning.

    Rope grab: means a deceleration device which travels on a lifeline and automatically, by friction, engages the lifeline and locks to arrest the fall of an employee

    Self-retracting lifeline/lanyard: means a deceleration device containing a drum-wound line which can be slowly extracted from, or retracted onto, the drum under slight tension during normal employee movement, and which, after the onset of a fall, automatically locks the drum and arrests the fall

    Snap hook: means a connector comprised of a hook-shaped member with a normally closed keeper, or similar arrangement, which may be opened to permit the hook to receive an object and, when released, automatically closes to retain the object

  • 4. Key Responsibilities

    Each box must be checked to serve as proof that you received the following information!
  • 4.1: Supervisors:
  • 4.2: Employees shall use the fall protection equipment as required by this program and:

  • 5. Procedure

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  • 5.1: The following are minimum standards for employee personal fall protection systems:
  • 5.2: Stopping a fall:
  • 5.3: Protection from Falling Objects:
  • 5.5: Tools required to perform a task shall be transported by a mechanical carrier such as a tag line, suspended bucket or tool belt:
  • 5.6: When work is to be performed from straight/extension ladders, fall protection shall be utilized when heights exceed 4 feet in all activities except construction where the rule is 6 feet
  • 5.7: Straight ladders shall be tied off at the top to prevent them from moving. A second person shall steady the ladder at the base while it is being tied off at the top by another employee. Do not tie off fall protection equipment to the ladder
  • 5.11: Prompt Rescue of an Employee in the Event of a Fall:
  • 5.12: This option is available only to employees engaged in leading edge work who can demonstrate that it is infeasible, or it creates a greater hazard to use conventional fall protection equipment. A Site Specific Fall Protection Plan shall be developed in such cases and conform to the following provisions, and be approved in writing by the HSE Director:
  • 5.13: Controlled Access Zones:
  • 5.14: The control line shall be connected on each side to a guardrail system or wall:
  • 5.16: The safety monitoring person shall be a competent person to monitor the safety of other employees. The competent person shall be assigned to:

  • 6. Test

    Each box must be checked to serve as proof that you received the following information!
  • 1. The purpose of this training program is to provide fall protection procedures to prevent injury to employees while performing work assignments at elevated levels.
  • 2. The only person allowed to deviate from the requirements of the fall protection standard are high level supervisors.
  • 3. Can a rope from the hardware store be used as a fall arrest lifeline?
  • 4. Can a second worker serve as a fall arrest anchor as long as they have good footing?
  • 5. Can a worker use homemade anchor hooks for fall protection?
  • 6. Supervisors shall make exposure determinations and consider the extent to which scaffolds, ladders or vehicle mounted work platforms can be used.
  • 7. Employees shall use the fall protection equipment as required by this program and
  • 8. No pelican hooks on lanyards should be used as a primary connection
  • 9. Swinging from a lanyard to get from one elevated platform to another is OK in certain circumstances
  • 10. A lifeline can be used as a tow strap
  • 11. A cable used for lifting equipment also works as a great lifeline.
  • 12. It is OK to toss tools from one elevated platform to another, as long as you don't see any workers below.
  • 13. Employees performing work at elevated levels shall keep tools, materials, and equipment away from the edge to keep potential objects from falling over the side. Where practical, tools and loose items shall be secured with rope, wire, etc. to keep them from falling.
  • 14. Three-point climbing is required while ascending/descending ladders. While on ladders, both hands and one foot, or both feet and one hand shall always be in contact with the ladder.
  • 15. Tools required to perform a task shall be transported by a mechanical carrier such as a tag line, suspended bucket or tool belt.
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