Fall-Protection Harnesses

In construction , falls kill more than 300 construction workers every year and hurt thousands. Deadly falls on the job are from unprotected roof edges, roof and floor openings, scaffolds, ladders, structural steel, leading edges, open shafts, and more.

Protect Yourself

• Whenever fall protection is needed, make sure you have the right fall-protection system, know how it works, get trained to use it – and use it.
• Where eliminating the hazard, guardrails, or safety nets won’t work, you need personal protective equipment (PPE) – fall-restraint systems, personal fall-arrest systems, or work positioning systems (on rebar). Restraint systems keep you from falling. Fall-arrest systems stop falls. You will need a full-body harness if you use one of these systems.
• A full-body harness has straps worn around your trunk and thighs, with one or more D-rings in back to attach the harness to other parts of the system. If you fall, a properly fitted harness spreads the stopping force over your thighs, pelvis, chest, and shoulders.

Choosing a Harness

• Learn about the types of fall hazards on your job.
• Choose the right type of fall protection for each type of fall hazard. Never use a body belt, seatonly harness, or chest-only harness for fall protection. Use a full-body harness instead.
• You can use a harness with an anchorage, a lanyard, a retractable lifeline, a vertical lifeline, a travel rail, a horizontal lifeline, a fall arrester, and/or a shock absorber. A fall-arrest system should let you fall no more than 6 feet. A work-positioning device should let you fall 2 feet or less.
• A registered professional engineer should design a fall protection system. A qualified person must supervise the setting up.
• Make sure the harness fits you and is comfortable, to prevent body strain. You can get shoulder and back pads to reduce harness pressure. Full-body cross-chest harnesses are more comfortable for women and can reduce bruising when falls are stopped.

Training

• The employer must fit and train each worker for the equipment to be used.
• A competent person must train workers at risk of falling about types of fall hazards, how to protect yourself, and other hazards and limitations in using fall protection.Training must cover all that can happen, like hanging in a harness and rescue. The trainer should tell workers about medical conditions that can be made worse by a fall in a harness.
• If the worksite changes or the type of fall protection equipment is changed, workers using the equipment must be retrained.

Steps to using harness

So, safety is very important for protect yourself from accident happen such as fall from height. Using safety harness when working at the height place. If you follow SOP or Policy of the company, you can prevent any accident that can happen in the workplace. 

Thats all . Safety First :)