[SML] OSHA Industrial Fall Protection

[Bill Sapsis]

You should look at OSHA's Duty of Care requirements.   There may well be an exemption for a limited access area but, if there is an injury or fatality in that area, the Duty of Care will outweigh the exemption.

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On 11/12/20, 4:46 PM, "Stagecraft on behalf of NODEraser via Stagecraft" <stagecraft-bounces at theatrical.net on behalf of stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

    Good Morning OSHA Gurus,
    
    I have a question about the requirements for fall protection under
    OSHA; I remember a discussion a few years ago about fall protection on
    platforms, and remember there was an exemption for areas that were not
    "general access". In my current place of employment
    (non-theatre/production) there is an upcoming meeting about the fall
    protection requirements for work on the roof of transportable
    shelters. We have two types; a vehicle-mounted shelter, and ISO-type
    containers, both of which have antennas that get installed on the
    roof.
    
    There has been light discussion about this in the past, and it's
    generally been regarded as unfeasible (jokes about clipping a harness
    into a "skyhook", etc) but it sounds like they're actually getting
    pretty serious about it. I imagine there is probably already some kind
    of standard or exemption that exists in industry; I'm thinking about
    trucking and climbing on top of trailers such as tankers for
    inspection and loading.
    
    I'm looking at the various sections (the general 1910 in particular)
    and can't find that kind of language anymore. Perhaps someone more
    familiar with OSHA and its intracacies has some ideas?
    
    
    TIA
    
    [Greg Bennett]
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