Annual fall protection inspections help building owners identify compliance gaps, meet OSHA requirements, and ensure rooftop safety systems continue to protect workers.

These systems are designed to stop a fall — not to prevent it. Most of the requirements here apply to the equipment itself. The employer needs to ensure that equipment purchased for personal fall ...

What is the first thing that you think about when you see the words “fall protection?” Do you think of a harness? Guard rails? Or perhaps you think of OSHA violations and worker’s compensation cases.

ANSI/ASSP. (2007). Safety requirements for personal fall arrest systems, subsystems (ANSI/ASSP Z359.1-2007). Des Plaines, IL: Author. ANSI/ASSP. (2012a). Fall protection systems for construction and ...