Trends in...fall protection: Stay safe when your life is on the line

摘要

WHILE TRAGIC, it likely is not surprising to hear about a worker dying after suffering a fall from height. According to the 2012 edition of the National Safety Council's "Injury Facts," falls to a lower level ranked second for on-the-job fatalities in 2009, with 538 deaths occurring. When asked about new technology in the fall protection field, Arnold Timothy Galpin, engineering manager from the Morgantown, PA-based Rigid Lifelines division of SPANCO Inc., spoke of new developments in two kinds of self-retracting lifelines.