Course Catalogue.

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the main options for providing fall protection and discuss the trade-offs between cost and effectiveness.
• Address the limitations of common Fall Arrest Systems in preventing worker injury at lower heights and implement effective solutions.
• Recognize the importance of specifying performance requirements rather than just types or brands to ensure effective fall protection.
• Determine which fall protection regulations and standards are applicable to specific systems.
• Understand how substituting equipment within a fall protection system can significantly alter its performance.

Description
Fall Protection can be provided in a wide variety of ways, including Passive Fall Protection (Guarded work areas) and Active Fall Protection (Travel Restraint and Fall Arrest Systems). Active Fall Protection is usually less expensive but much more complicated than simplistically providing strong anchorage systems for workers to connect to.

Although this course does not teach fall protection engineering methods, it does provide sufficient information to help attendees write specifications that will make fall protection providers properly responsible for the engineering performance of the systems they provide.

Who Should Attend

The course is intended for Architects and Engineers who have basic or no knowledge/training in the field of fall protection safety, who write or select specifications for others to develop and install fall protection systems.