FALL PROTECTION PROGRAM 13255 South St. Ceitos, CA 90703 Telephone 562-924-3364 Fax 562-924-0521
Table of Contents Fall Potection... 3 Fall Potection Is Requied... 3 Fall Potection Types... 3 Standad Guadails, Safety Cables, o Coves... 3 Pesonal Fall Aest Systems... 4 Positioning Device Systems... 5 Pesonal Fall Restaint... 5 Examples of Situations Requiing Fall Potection... 6 Wall Openings... 6 Holes... 6 Hoist Aeas... 6 Ramps, Runways, and Othe Walkways... 6 Laddes... 6 Tempoay Wok Platfoms / Walkways... 7 Pesonnel Lift / Hoist Devices... 7 Spydes And Sky- Climbes... 7 Pemanent Stuctues / Stais / Caged Laddes... 7 Fall Potection Systems... 8 Guadail Systems... 8 Pesonal Fall Aest Systems... 9 Positioning Device Systems... 9 Safety Monitoing Systems... 9 Coves... 9 Potection fom Falling Objects... 10 Taining... 10 Fall Potection Wok Plan... 11 Inspection of Fall Aest Equipment... 12 2
Fall Potection It ou policy to take all pactical measues possible to pevent employees fom being injued by falls fom heights. We will take necessay steps to eliminate, pevent, and contol fall hazads. Fist consideation will be given to the elimination of fall hazads. If a fall hazad cannot be eliminated, effective fall potection will be planned, implemented, and monitoed to contol the isks of injuy due to falling. All pesonnel exposed to potential falls fom heights will be tained to minimize the exposues. Fall potection equipment will be povided and its use equied by all employees. Fall Potection Is Requied Fall potection is equied when woking whee thee is a hazad of falling moe than 6 feet fom the peimete of a stuctue, unpotected sides and edges, leading edges, though shaft ways and openings, sloped oof sufaces steepe than 7:12, o othe sloped sufaces steepe than 40 degees not othewise adequately potected and boom lifts. Fall Potection Types One of the following types of fall potection systems will be used when ou employees ae exposed to fall hazads in excess of 6 (feet): Eliminate the fall hazad Standad guadails, cables o floo hole coves Pesonal fall aest system Positioning devices Fall estaint systems Standad Guadails, Safety Cables, o Coves These ae the easiest and most cost effective methods of poviding fall potection and have a vey high success ate. Standad guadails, safety cables, floo hole and sky light coves ae ou pefeed means of fall potection on job sites. The following ules will be followed when using them: Railings shall be constucted of wood, o in an equally substantial manne fom othe mateials. It will consist of a top ail not less than 42 inches o moe than 45 inches in height measued fom the uppe suface of the top ail to the floo, platfom, unway o amp level and a mid-ail. The mid-ail shall be halfway between the top ail and the floo, platfom, unway o amp. Selected lumbe fee fom damage that affects its stength, shall be used. Wooden posts shall be not less than 2 inches by 4 inches in coss section, spaced at 8-foot o close intevals. Wooden top ailings shall be smooth and of 2-inch by 4-inch o lage mateial. Double, 1-inch by 4-inch membes may be used fo this pupose, povided that one membe is fastened in a flat position on top of the posts and the othe fastened in an edge-up position to the inside of the posts and the side of the top membe. Mid ails shall be of at least 1-inch by 6-inch mateial. The ails shall be placed on the side of the post that will affod the geatest suppot and potection. All guadails, including thei connections and anchoage, shall be capable of withstanding a load of 13 pounds pe linea foot applied eithe hoizontally o vetically downwad at the top 3
ail. Railings eceiving heavy stesses fom employees tucking o handling mateials shall be povided additional stength by the use of heavie stock, close spacing of posts, bacing, o by othe means. Floo, oof and skylight openings shall be guaded by a standad ailing and toe boads o cove. Coveing shall be capable of safely suppoting the geate of the weight of a 200-pound peson o the weight of woke(s) and mateial(s) placed theeon. Coveings shall be secued in place to pevent accidental emoval o displacement, and shall bea a pessue sensitized, painted, o stenciled sign with legible lettes not less than one inch high, stating: Opening/Cove Do Not Remove. Makings of chalk o keel shall not be used. Ladde way floo openings o platfoms shall be guaded by standad ailings with standad toe boads on all exposed sides, except at the entance to the opening, with the passage though the ailing eithe povided with a swinging gate o so offset that a peson cannot walk diectly into the opening. Floo holes, into which pesons can accidentally walk, shall be guaded by eithe a standad ailing with standad toe boads on all exposed sides, o a floo hole cove of standad stength and constuction that is secued against accidental displacement. While the cove is not in place, standad ailings shall potect the floo hole. Wall openings, fom which thee is a dop of moe than 4 feet, and the bottom of the opening is less than 3 feet above the woking suface, shall be guaded with eithe a standad ail o intemediate ail o both. An extension platfom outside a wall opening onto which mateials can be hoisted fo handling shall have side ails o equivalent guads of standad specifications. One side of an extension platfom may have emovable ailings in ode to facilitate handling mateials. Wall opening potection baies shall be of such constuction and mounting that, when in place at the opening, the baie is capable of withstanding a load of at least 200 pounds applied in any diection (except upwad). All elevato shafts in which cages ae not installed and which ae not enclosed with solid patitions and doos shall be guaded on all open sides by standad ailings and toe boads. A full body haness and lanyad ae equied when using boom lifts. Pesonal Fall Aest Systems Pesonal fall aest systems consist of a full body haness and a shock-absobing lanyad attached to suitable anchoage. They ae also an effective means of peventing fall accidents. The system does not actually stop you fom falling, but catches you and safely stops you fom hitting the level below. Fall aest systems will be ou pefeed means of potection when standad guadails, safety cables, o coves ae not pactical. The following ules, in addition to the manufactue s equiements and Cal OSHA egulations, will be obseved: Ropes and staps (webbing) used in lanyads, lifelines, and stength components of body hanesses shall be made fom synthetic fibes except when they ae used in conjunction with hot wok whee the lanyad may be exposed to damage fom heat o flame. Anchoages used fo attachment of pesonal fall aest equipment shall be independent of any anchoage being used to suppot o suspend platfoms. It shall also be capable of suppoting at least 5,000 pounds pe employee attached, o shall be designed, installed, and used as pat of a complete pesonal fall aest system which maintains a safety facto of at least two; and unde the supevision of a qualified peson. 4
The attachment point of the body belt shall be located in the cente of the weae s back. The attachment point of the body haness shall be located in the cente of the weae s back nea shoulde level, o above the weae s head. Whee pactical, the ancho end of the lanyad shall be secued at a level not lowe than the employee s waist, limiting the fall distance to a maximum of 4 feet. Hanesses, lanyads, and othe components shall be used only fo employee potection as pat of a pesonal fall aest system and not to hoist mateials. Pesonal fall aest systems and components subjected to impact loading shall be immediately emoved fom sevice and shall not be used again fo employee potection until inspected and detemined by a competent peson to be undamaged and suitable fo euse. We shall povide fo pompt escue of employees in the event of a fall o shall ensue that employees ae able to escue themselves. Pesonal fall aest systems shall be inspected pio to each use fo wea, damage and othe deteioation, and defective components shall be emoved fom sevice. Any lanyad, safety haness, o dop line subjected to in-sevice loading, as distinguished fom static load testing, shall be immediately emoved fom sevice and shall not be used again fo employee safeguading. Pesonal fall aest systems shall not be attached to guadails, unless the guadail is capable of safely suppoting the load. Each pesonal fall aest system shall be inspected not less than twice annually by a competent peson in accodance with the manufactue's ecommendations. The date of each inspection shall be documented. Pesonal fall aest systems will be igged such that an employee can neithe fee fall moe than 4 feet, no contact any lowe level. Pesonal fall aest systems will bing an employee to a complete stop. They will also limit maximum deceleation distance an employee tavels to 3.5 feet and have sufficient stength to withstand twice the potential impact enegy of an employee fee-falling a distance of 6 feet, o the fee fall distance pemitted by the system, whicheve is less. Positioning Device Systems Positioning device systems ae designed to allow employees to wok with both hands fee at elevated locations. By thei vey natue, they povide some level of fall potection. They ae not as effective as ailings o fall aest systems. Positioning device systems may be used togethe with a fall aest system fo geate safety. Thei use shall confom to the following povisions: Positioning devices shall be igged such that an employee cannot fee fall moe than 2 feet. Positioning device systems shall be inspected pio to each use fo wea, damage, and othe deteioation and defective components shall be emoved fom sevice. Body belts, hanesses, and components shall be used only fo employee potection (as pat of a pesonal fall aest system o positioning device system) and not to hoist mateials. The use of non-locking snap hooks is pohibited. Anchoage points fo positioning device systems shall be capable of suppoting two times the intended load o 3,000 pounds, whicheve is geate. Pesonal Fall Restaint Fall estaint systems ae designed to pevent the weae fom eaching the edge o dange aea and thus pevent them fom falling. Body belts o hanesses may be used fo pesonal fall estaint. Body belts shall be at least one and five-eighths (1 5/8) inches wide. 5
Anchoage points used fo fall estaint shall be capable of suppoting 4 times the intended load. Restaint potection shall be igged to allow the movement of employees only as fa as the sides of the woking level o woking aea. Examples of Situations Requiing Fall Potection The following ae examples of situations wee fall potection would be needed. This listing is by no means complete, and thee ae many othe situations whee a fall of 6 feet o moe is possible. Wall Openings Each employee woking on, at, above, o nea wall openings (including those with chutes attached) whee the outside bottom edge of the wall opening is 6 feet o moe above lowe levels and the inside bottom edge of the wall opening is less than 39 inches above the walking/woking suface must be potected fom falling by the use of a guadail system, a safety net system, o a pesonal fall aest system. Holes Pesonal fall aest systems, coves, o guadail systems shall be eected aound holes (including skylights) that ae moe than 6 feet above lowe levels. Hoist Aeas Each employee in a hoist aea shall be potected fom falling 6 feet o moe by guadail systems o pesonal fall aest systems. If guadail systems (o chain gate o guadail) o potions theeof must be emoved to facilitate hoisting opeations, as duing the landing of mateials, and a woke must lean though the access opening o out ove the edge of the access opening to eceive o guide equipment and mateials, that employee must be potected by a pesonal fall aest system. Ramps, Runways, and Othe Walkways Each employee using amps, unways, and othe walkways shall be potected fom falling 6 feet o moe by guadail systems. Laddes Pesonnel woking fom laddes shall wea and, when equied, use an appoved safety haness / lanyad system fo fall potection. Pemanent caged stuctual laddes may be ascended o descended without additional fall potection. Tempoay constuction laddes, shall extend at least 36 inches above thei uppemost landing and be secued against displacement. When ascending o descending laddes, pesonnel shall use both hands. Mateials o tools shall not be caied in hands while using laddes. Potable ladde (e.g.: extension laddes, step laddes, etc.) uses must comply with the following: Pesonnel climbing laddes which ae not tied off at the top must have anothe peson hold the ladde at the bottom until it can be secued. This includes the last tip down afte untying a ladde at the top. Upon climbing to the elevation whee the task is to be pefomed, the peson on the ladde shall popely secue thei safety lanyad befoe doing anything else. Next, the ladde must be tied off befoe wok can begin. When the task is complete, the pocess is evesed with the safety 6
lanyad being the last potective device eleased pio to descent. A.J. Padelfod & Son, Inc. Fall Potection Pogam 09/16 Tempoay Wok Platfoms / Walkways (Scaffolds) Evey effot shall be made to ensue all tempoay platfoms/walkways, scaffolds, etc. ae equipped with solid decks fee of openings and standad guadails egadless of height. Pesonnel woking fom o taveling on tempoay wok platfoms o catwalks must wea an appoved safety haness and lanyad at all times. Pesonnel ae not equied to secue thei lanyads when the tempoay wok platfom o catwalk is complete with standad guadail systems and walking / woking suface (deck) which ae fee of opening. All access openings in the platfom o catwalk must be povided with closue devices such as ladde gates. Pesonnel who ae not potected by completed decks and guadail systems must have thei safety lanyad secued popely at all times. Pesonnel who must lean though o ove handails must secue thei lanyad. Evey tempoay wok platfom o elevated walkway must be povided with a safe means of access / egess which allows pesonnel to emain tied off while gaining access to the platfom o walkway. Retactable lifelines shall be used to achieve fall potection while ascending o descending access laddes to tempoay wok platfoms o walkways. Pesonnel Lift / Hoist Devices (Aeial Lifts e.g.: Jig, Scisso, Snokel, etc.) Pesonnel iding in o woking fom these lifts must wea an appoved safety haness / lanyad system and secue thei safety lanyad to lift basket at all times. Lifts shall be placed on solid level sufaces so as to eliminate possibility of ovetuning. Spydes And Sky- Climbes Pesonnel iding o woking fom these hoisting devices shall wea an appoved safety haness / lanyad system and each shall povide an independent lifeline and ope gab to which thei lanyad shall be secued at all times when aloft. Pemanent Stuctues / Stais / Caged Laddes Pesonnel woking o taveling on pemanent decks, floos, and walkways which ae fee of fall exposues ae not equied to wea safety hanesses and lanyads povided they can access the elevations by completed pemanent stais o fully enclosed pesonnel hoists (elevatos). Pesonnel woking o taveling in incomplete pemanent stuctues whee fall exposues exist, such floo openings and open sided floos, must wea an appoved safety haness/lanyad system and be popely tied off when within 6 of any fall exposue. Pioity shall be given to installation and secuing of pemanent floos and walking sufaces and all guad ails and othe pemanent fall potection devices. When equied, tempoay guad ails and floo coves shall be installed to eliminate fall exposues. Only authoized pesonnel involved in wok activities associated with the fall exposue and also ae povided with seconday fall potection systems may wok on floos o walkways which ae incomplete. Pemanent stais, when completed, shall be used to access o egess elevated wok aeas. Safety lanyads and othe fall potection ae not equied on stais as the handails ae to be used fo this pupose. Pesonnel climbing o descending stais shall always have one hand on the 7
handail. Caged laddes do not equie seconday fall potection. Pesonnel climbing laddes must keep both hands fee fo climbing at all times. Fall Potection Systems When thee is a potential fall of feet o moe, we will utilize one o moe of the following means of poviding potection: Guadail Systems Guadail systems must meet the following citeia. Topails and midails of guadail systems must be at least one-quate inch nominal diamete o thickness to pevent cuts and laceations. If wie ope is used fo topails, it must be flagged at not moe 6 foot intevals with high-visibility mateial. Steel and plastic banding cannot be used as topails o midails. Manila, plastic, o synthetic ope used fo topails o midails must be inspected as fequently as necessay to ensue stength and stability. The top edge height of topails, o (equivalent) guadails must be 42 inches plus o minus 3 inches, above the walking/woking level. When wokes ae using stilts, the top edge height of the top ail, o equivalent membe, must be inceased an amount equal to the height of the stilts. Sceens, midails, mesh, intemediate vetical membes, o equivalent intemediate stuctual membes must be installed between the top edge of the guadail system and the walking/woking suface when thee ae no walls o paapet walls at least 21 inches high. When midails ae used, they must be installed at a height midway between the top edge of the guadail system and the walking/woking level. When sceens and mesh ae used, they must extend fom the top ail to the walking/woking level and along the entie opening between top ail suppots. Intemediate membes, such as balustes, when used between posts, shall not be moe than 19 inches apat. Othe stuctual membes, such as additional midails and achitectual panels, shall be installed so that thee ae no openings in the guadail system moe than 19 inches. The guadail system must be capable of withstanding a foce of at least 200 pounds applied within 2 inches of the top edge in any outwad o downwad diection. When the 200-pound test is applied in a downwad diection, the top edge of the guadail must not deflect to a height less than 39 inches above the walking/woking level. Midails, sceens, mesh, intemediate vetical membes, solid panels, and equivalent stuctual membes shall be capable of withstanding a foce of at least 150 pounds applied in any downwad o outwad diection at any point along the midail o othe membe. Guadail systems shall be sufaced to potect wokes fom punctues o laceations and to pevent clothing fom snagging. The ends of top ails and midails must not ovehang teminal posts, except whee such ovehang does not constitute a pojection hazad. When guadail systems ae used at hoisting aeas, a chain, gate o emovable guadail section must be placed acoss the access opening between guadail sections when hoisting opeations ae not taking place. At holes, guadail systems must be set up on all unpotected sides o edges. When holes ae used fo the passage of mateials, the hole shall have not moe than two sides with emovable guadail sections. When the hole is not in use, it must be coveed o povided with guadails along all unpotected sides o edges. If guadail systems ae used aound holes that ae used as access points (such as ladde ways), gates must be used o the point of access must be offset to pevent accidental walking into the 8
hole. If guadails ae used at unpotected sides o edges of amps and unways, they must be eected on each unpotected side o edge. Pesonal Fall Aest Systems These consist of an anchoage, connectos, and a body belt o body hanesses and may include a deceleation device, lifeline, o suitable combinations. If a pesonal fall aest system is used fo fall potection, it must do the following: Limit maximum aesting foce on an employee to 900 pounds when used with a body belt; Limit maximum aesting foce on an employee to 1,800 pounds when used with a body haness; Be igged so that an employee can neithe fee fall moe than 6 feet no contact any lowe level; Bing an employee to a complete stop and limit maximum deceleation distance an employee tavels to 3.5 feet; and Have sufficient stength to withstand twice the potential impact enegy of an employee fee falling a distance of 6 feet o the fee fall distance pemitted by the system, whicheve is less. The use of body belts fo fall aest is pohibited and a full body haness is equied. Pesonal fall aest systems must be inspected pio to each use fo wea damage, and othe deteioation. Defective components must be emoved fom sevice. Positioning Device Systems These body belt o body haness systems ae to be set up so that a woke can fee fall no fathe than 2 feet. They shall be secued to an anchoage capable of suppoting a least twice the potential impact load of an employee s fall o 3,000 pounds, whicheve is geate. Safety Monitoing Systems When no othe altenative fall potection has been implemented, the employe shall implement a safety monitoing system. The supeintendent must appoint a competent peson to monito the safety of wokes and shall ensue that the safety monito: Is competent in the ecognition of fall hazads; Is capable of waning wokes of fall hazad danges and in detecting unsafe wok pactices; Is opeating on the same walking/woking sufaces of the wokes and can see them; Is close enough to wok opeations to communicate oally with wokes and has no othe duties to distact fom the monitoing function. Mechanical equipment shall not be used o stoed in aeas whee safety-monitoing systems ae being used to monito employees engaged in oofing opeations on low-sloped oofs. No woke, othe than one engaged in oofing wok (on low-sloped oofs) o one coveed by a fall potection plan, shall be allowed in an aea whee an employee is being potected by a safety monitoing system. All wokes in a contolled access zone shall be instucted to pomptly comply with fall hazad wanings issued by safety monitos. Coves Coves located in oadways and vehicula aisles must be able to suppot at least twice the maximum axle load of the lagest vehicle to which the cove might be subjected. All othe coves must be able to suppot at least twice the weight of employees, equipment, and mateials that may be imposed on the cove at any one time. To pevent accidental displacement esulting fom wind, equipment, o 9
wokes activities, all coves must be secued. All coves shall bea the makings "HOLE" o "COVER" DO NOT REMOVE. Potection fom Falling Objects When guadail systems ae used to pevent mateials fom falling fom one level to anothe, any openings must be small enough to pevent passage of potential falling objects. No mateials o equipment except masony and mota shall be stoed within 4 feet of woking edges. Excess mota, boken o scatteed masony units, and all othe mateials and debis shall be kept clea of the woking aea by emoval at egula intevals. Taining Employees will be tained in the following aeas: The natue of fall hazads in the wok aea; The coect pocedues fo eecting, maintaining, disassembling, and inspecting fall potection systems; The use and opeation of contolled access zones and guadail, pesonal fall aest, safety net, waning line, and safety monitoing systems; The ole of each employee in the safety monitoing system when the system is in use; the limitations on the use of mechanical equipment duing the pefomance of oofing wok on low-sloped oofs; The coect pocedues fo equipment and mateials handling and stoage and the eection of ovehead potection; and, Employee s ole in fall potection plans. 10
Fall Potection Wok Plan Instuctions: This fom is to be completed fo each wok site whee employees ae assigned and a fall hazad(s) of 6 feet o moe exists, as well as fo othe aeas whee the supeintendent decides it is appopiate. This document must be completed by a supeintendent who has an undestanding of ou fall potection equiements, and who has authoity to take coective action to help potect employees fom exposue to fall hazads. A copy of this plan must be available on the wok site and a copy sent to Bett. Wok Site Addess: Peson Completing this Wok Plan: Date: Fall Hazads Identified in Wok Aea (check only those that apply): Hazad Type Leading Edge Wok Ladde Wok Excavation Edges Gade Dop-Offs Vaults Othe (indicate): Fall Potection Method (cicle those to be used). Refe to the manufactue s instuctions fo pocedues on use & cae of equipment, see Competent Peson on site. Waning Line System Positioning Belt Guadails, Waning Line System Guadails Ovehead Potection (if needed indicate numbe fom key below) OVERHEAD PROTECTION METHOD KEY Numbe Ovehead Potection Method Numbe Ovehead Potection Method 1 Had Hats 5 Sceens on Guadails 2 Ovehead Hazad Signs 6 Baicades to Contol Access 3 Debis Nets 7 Othe (indicate): 4 Toe Boads on Guadails 8 Othe (indicate): 11
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