1. WORKING FROM HEIGHTS Fall Protection Scaffold Safety Ladder Safety
Bi-Weekly Safety Meeting
September 3, 2015

2. Fall Protection
Falls are among the most common causes of serious work-related injuries and deaths.
Although falls from heights are rare, the results are often serious. To protect yourself:
Identify fall hazards in the workplace
Know the types of protective systems
Use fall protection equipment
Prevent being struck by falling objects

3. Are there tasks that you do that may create a fall hazard in your workplace?

4. This is not the place to plan how to prevent a fall.
Working from heights and the use of fall protection must be addressed on the project JSA prior to the start of work.

5. Types of Fall Protection
Guardrail Systems
Safety Nets
Personal Fall-Arrest
Anchor, connector, body harness, lifelines, lanyards, deceleration devices
Safety Monitoring Systems
Positioning Devices
Lineman’s belts
Personal Fall Protection Systems
Ladder safety device
Warning Line Systems
Covers

6. Protecting Workers from Falls
Fall protection, as outlined in Mangan’s Fall Protection Program, is to be worn on any scaffold work over ____ feet. 6
Any employee doing elevated work over 6 feet from a permanent structure or platform must evaluate the specific work activity to determine whether or not fall protection (harness) would mitigate the potential for injury.

7. Protecting Workers from Falls
Personal fall arrest systems must be selected and rigged to ensure that potential free fall distances will never exceed 6 ft (1.8 m) as required by OSHA.
Total fall distance is the sum of free fall distance and deceleration distance.
It is prudent to allow for an additional safety factor of 3 ft (1 m) below the fallen worker’s feet.
When fall clearance is under 18.5 ft (5.6m), an alternative solution such as a shorter lanyard length, or a different connecting device such as a self-retracting lanyard or fall limiter, is needed to reduce the total fall distance.
When fall clearance is over 18.5 ft (5.6m) there is sufficient total fall distance available and the 6 ft lanyard is acceptable to use. Note that energy absorbing lanyards can expand up to 3.5 ft (1.1m). Consult manufacturer’s instructions.

8. Protecting Workers from Falls
When using a 6-foot lanyard, the illustration below shows a typical calculation of total estimated fall distance. *
* Cal OSHA regulations allow for a 2’ free fall.

9. Body Harnesses – Fit / Use
Should fit properly and snugly
The back ‘D’ Ring should be between the shoulder blades (up high).
When using a tie-off adapter, make sure that the web is facing up (the label should also be on the outside) before securing it.
Inspect a tie-off adapter as you would your harnesses.
Safety lanyards must be attached to a secure structure at all times.
One hundred percent tie off using the lanyards is required when using fall protection equipment.

10. Fall Protection Training
Fall protection training for Mangan employees (regardless of any previous training received elsewhere) consists of:
Fall Protection Awareness training (this meeting/training)
OSHA Fall Protection Training (online via Syntrio)
Practice donning the harness with a competent employee
Please contact the Safety Department for additional information on becoming trained.

11. Rescue After a Fall Plan for rescue before the job
Ensure the rescue can be done safely and quickly
Know the emergency phone number

12. Scaffold Safety

13. An elevated, temporary work platform
What Is A Scaffold?
An elevated, temporary work platform
Three basic types:
Supported scaffolds
Suspended scaffolds
Aerial Lifts
Supported scaffold - one or more platforms supported by outrigger beams, brackets, poles, legs, uprights, posts, frames, or similar rigid support.
Suspension scaffold - one or more platforms suspended by ropes or other non-rigid means from an overhead structure(s)
Aerial lifts – Vehicle-mounted devices used to get a worker to an elevated position, — referred to as “cherry pickers” or “boom trucks”

14. Scaffold Hazards
Employees working on scaffolds can be exposed to the following hazards:
Falls from elevation
Contact with overhead power lines and other electrical equipment
Bad planking/Scaffold collapse
Falls from elevation
Caused by slipping, unsafe access and lack of fall protection
Being Struck
By falling tools and debris
Electrocution
From overhead powerlines
Scaffold collapse
Caused by instability or overloading
Bad planking
Giving way

15. Scaffold Hazards Most of our clients use System Scaffolds.
These scaffolds are built with access to sturdy tie off points at the joints (see below) or the guard rails.

16. Scaffold Tags
Employees can only work on a ‘green tag’ scaffold without a harness as long as it is under the 6’ height requirements for Fall Protection.
Not all scaffolds will have the harness wording, but Mangan adheres to the procedure for harness use on all ‘yellow tagged’ scaffolds.
Danger! Do not use scaffold (A ‘no tag’ scaffold is considered a red tag scaffold).
Scaffolds should have a tag, and the colors/descriptions will vary from site to site – always be informed and check the tag before you get on to ensure the scaffold has been inspected by a competent person during that shift.

17. Falling Object Protection
Wear hardhats
The area below a scaffold should be barricaded to forbid entry into that area
Panels or screens must be used if material is stacked higher than the toeboard
A canopy or net should be in place below the scaffold that will contain or deflect falling objects
Reference (h)(1) & (2) & (3)
How am I protected from falling objects when I am working on a scaffold?
The major protection is to always wear a hardhat. In addition, when there is the danger of falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects, the employer must install toeboards, screens or guardrail systems above the worker on a scaffold, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.
When the potential falling objects are too large to be held by toeboards, screens or guardrail systems, the employer must place such objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall, and must secure those materials as necessary to prevent their falling.
Workers on scaffolds must be aware of employees working below them, who are in danger from objects falling from the scaffold. Where this danger exists, the employer must set up a barricade to keep employees from working below the scaffold, or must place a toeboard or an edging along the edge of the platform.

18. Falling Tape Measure Kills Man at Jersey City Construction Site
11/3/2014: A man in his 50s died after being hit in the head by a tape measure that fell 50 stories from a construction site in Jersey City

19. Flash Report – Near Miss
January 23, 2015:
At a refinery, a Mangan employee was climbing a ladder to reach a platform approximately 15’ above grade to take measurements with a tape measure for field verification.
On the way down – about halfway to grade – the tape measure fell out of the employee’s pocket to the ground. Fortunately, no one was below when this occurred.
As a follow-up step to this incident, Mangan now provides tape measure cases & lanyards (see next slide).

20. Falling Object Protection
Mangan utilizes lanyard systems to secure tape measures while working at heights.
If you need a lanyard for tape measures or other equipment, please contact the safety department for further information.

21. General Ladder Requirements
DO:
Keep the area around the top and bottom of a ladder clear
Ensure rungs, cleats, and steps are level and uniformly spaced
Ensure rungs are spaced 10 to 14 inches apart
Keep ladders free from slipping hazards
DON’T:
Tie ladders together to make longer sections, unless designed for such use
Use single rail ladders
Load ladders beyond the maximum load for which they were built, nor beyond the manufacturer’s rated capacity

22. Ladder Rail Extension
When using a portable ladder for access to an upper landing surface, the side rails must extend at least 3 feet above the upper landing surface
3 feet
Reference (b)(1)
When portable ladders are used for access to an upper landing surface, the side rails must extend at least 3 feet above the upper landing surface. When such an extension is not possible, the ladder must be secured, and a grasping device such as a grab rail must be provided to assist workers in mounting and dismounting the ladder. A ladder extension must not deflect under a load that would cause the ladder to slip off its support.

23. Tall Fixed Ladder Requirements
A fixed ladder 24 feet or longer should be equipped with one of the following:
Ladder safety device or
Self-retracting lifelines with rest platforms every 150 feet or less or
Cage or well, and multiple ladder sections, each section not exceeding 50 feet
OSHA § (a)(19)

24. Additional Ladder Safety…
If using ladders where the employee or the ladder could contact exposed energized electrical equipment, the ladders must have nonconductive siderails such as wood or fiberglass.
Do not use the top step of a stepladder as a step!
When climbing the ladder:
Face the ladder
Maintain 3 points of contact
Do not carry any object or load that could cause you to lose your balance (or that you could drop)
Reference (b)(12)
OSHA § (b)(12,13, 20-22)

25. MSP-220, Employee Safety & Security Guidelines
Lone Worker Rule
Any Mangan employee engaged in any inherently hazardous activity must be within sight and/or hearing distance of another Mangan employee who is familiar with the job being performed, its potential hazard and the emergency procedures to follow in the event of an accident.

26. What’s Lone Work?
Some situations where the lone worker rule applies are listed on Mangan’s JSA Standard form:
Exposure to live voltage
Work involving use of personal fall protection (harness)
Work in remote areas of the unit/refinery/pipeline/building
Driving (traveling) in remote areas to remote sites
If any of these situations apply during project work, another person is required to be one or more of the following, as applicable:
Within ear shot
Within eye shot
A telephone buddy

27. Resources Policies are located on the Mangan Google Site:
MSP-221, Scaffold Use
MSP-224, Fall Protection
MSP-226, Construction Safety Manual
MSP-220, Employee Safety & Security Guidelines
Policies are located on the Mangan Google Site:
SAFETY – RESOURCE CENTER

28. Questions?