Picture This! Don’t Slip
Just one little misstep is all it would take for this worker's day to come crashing down in a painful, even deadly way.
Just one little misstep is all it would take for this worker's day to come crashing down in a painful, even deadly way.
Practice makes perfect, or so it is said. But workers who perfect unsafe practices and think nothing bad will ever happen to them are often sadly proven wrong.
“Watch your step please” read this sign found outside an Illinois business. Given the condition of the steps leading up to it, that's pretty sound advice!
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Topics include components of a fall arrest system, inspection, calculating fall distance, selection of a connecting device and the importance of choosing a legal tie-off point.
(20 Minutes)

Slips, trips and falls are the second-leading cause of workplace injuries and fatalities. This new, engaging and fast-paced program will motivate your employees to recognize and respect the common causes of slips, trips and falls, and teach them procedures and techniques to prevent them from occurring and causing injury.
Fall protection includes personal fall arrest equipment, conventional equipment such as guardrails, and positioning device systems. A fall arrest system is used to halt a person's fall from a working level 10 feet (three meters)
Falls through floor openings cause many deaths and serious injuries. These incidents also cause terrible feelings of guilt because typically, one worker fails to securely cover a floor opening and another worker falls through it to his death.

In the US more than 15,000 people die each year from falls, placing falls second only to motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of accidental death. In Canada, more than 1,800 people die as a result of falling each year. And across North America, tens of thousands of workers are injured in falls every year, with many of these incidents occurring from a height where fall protection measures should have been taken but weren’t.