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Overview

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.

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Syllabus

• The fundamentals of fall protection technology including the preferred and recommended hierarchy of fall protection solutions.
• The range of clearances required for various fall arrest systems. This will help students to recognize when certain systems should not be selected or when it becomes critical to involve a Qualified Fall Protection Engineer.
• CSA and international standards that can be cited according to the type of fall protection system that has been selected.
• The important contents of CSA Z259.16 for the “Design of Active Fall Protection Systems” that ensure you get active fall protection that meets your needs.

Instructor

Greg Small , P.Eng., M.Eng

Greg Small is highly respected as one of the leading Fall Protection engineering experts in the World. Approximately one-third of presenters at the last ten “International Society for Fall Protection” Symposiums have received Fall Protection Engineering Training from Greg.

In 1991, Greg was appointed to the Canadian Standards Association Z259 technical committee on fall protection and served on its executive for more than 10 years, stepping down as its vice-chair in 2016. He has played a very active role in the development of standards in fall protection. He has made significant contributions to the last two editions of Z259.13, “Flexible Horizontal Lifeline Systems”, and chaired the first edition of Z259.15, “Anchorage Connectors”. His proudest achievement, however, was conceiving and chairing the original and all subsequent editions of Z259.16, for the “Design of Active Fall Protection Systems”. This ground-breaking standard was adopted, almost verbatim, as ANSI Z359.6-09 in the United States and SS607 in Singapore. At ANSI Z359, Greg stepped down as chair of ANSI Z359.18, “Anchorage Connectors” in 2020 but remains a very active participant in that and many other standards, particularly ANSI Z359.6 (“Design of Active Fall Protection Systems”) and ANSI Z359.17 (“Horizontal Lifelines”).

Greg incorporated “Elevated Insight and Engineering Ltd.” in September 2016, in service of the fall protection industry. He remains active with CSA Z259 and ANSI Z359 and consults to engineering firms, manufacturers and regulators. He serves as an expert witness in a variety of liability cases, and offers his industry-leading training in “Qualified Fall Protection Engineer” and “Competent Person Advanced”. He has participated in many forensic investigations of incidents, accidents, equipment failures, design flaws, and mis-use of equipment and systems.