WORKING FROM HEIGHTS Fall Protection Scaffold Safety Ladder

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

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: ü ü Identify fall hazards in the workplace Know the types of protective systems Use fall protection equipment Prevent being struck by falling objects

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

• 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.

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

Protecting Workers from Falls Fall protection, as outlined in Mangan’s Fall Protection Program, is to be worn on any scaffold work over ____ feet. 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.

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. 6 m), an alternative solution such as a shorter lanyard length, or a different connecting device such as a selfretracting lanyard or fall limiter, is needed to reduce the total fall distance. – When fall clearance is over 18. 5 ft (5. 6 m) 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. 1 m). Consult manufacturer’s instructions.

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.

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.

Fall Protection Training Fall protection training for Mangan employees (regardless of any previous training received elsewhere) consists of: 1. 2. 3. 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.

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

Scaffold Safety

What Is A Scaffold? An elevated, temporary work platform Three basic types: • Supported scaffolds • Suspended scaffolds • Aerial Lifts

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

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.

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.

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

Falling Tape Measure Kills Man at Jersey City Construction Site • 11/3/2014: A man in his 50 s died after being hit in the head by a tape measure that fell 50 stories from a construction site in Jersey City http: //www. nytimes. com/2014/11/04/nyregion/falling-tape-measure-kills-man-atjersey-city-construction-site. html? _r=0

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).

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.

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 DON’T: • Tie ladders together to make longer sections, unless designed for such use • Use single rail ladders • Ensure rungs are spaced 10 to • Load ladders beyond the maximum load for which they 14 inches apart were built, nor beyond the • Keep ladders free from slipping manufacturer’s rated capacity hazards

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

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 § 1926. 1053(a)(19)

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: 1. Face the ladder 2. Maintain 3 points of contact 3. Do not carry any object or load that could cause you to lose your balance (or that you could drop) OSHA § 1926. 1053(b)(12, 13, 20 -22)

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.

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

Resources • • 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

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