Fall Prevention vs. Fall Protection: A New Safety Category

摘要

It's better to put a fence at the top of a cliff than to park an ambulance at the bottom. Instead of catching the climber after the fall, let's design the product to prevent the fall from occurring. Stop climbing Grandpas ladder and lets improve ladder safety through better design. Even with a renewed emphasis on ladder safety training the numbers of ladder related injuries continues to rise. In 2008, the CPSC estimated that more than 500,000 people were injured while using a ladder or stepstool. In 2010, the estimate rose to 724,000-that's nearly 2,000 people injured every day. Experts estimate that 100 people will suffer a long-term or permanent disability each day. And 1 person will die, every day.