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Personal Fall Arrest Systems- Weekly Toolbox Talk- English

The document outlines the requirements and characteristics of Personal Fall Arrest Systems (PFAS), which are designed to safely stop workers from falling. Key components include anchorage, connectors, and body harnesses, with specific strength and inspection criteria. It emphasizes the importance of using locking snap-hooks, horizontal and vertical lifelines, and ensuring that all components are supervised by qualified personnel.

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Personal Fall Arrest Systems- Weekly Toolbox Talk- English

The document outlines the requirements and characteristics of Personal Fall Arrest Systems (PFAS), which are designed to safely stop workers from falling. Key components include anchorage, connectors, and body harnesses, with specific strength and inspection criteria. It emphasizes the importance of using locking snap-hooks, horizontal and vertical lifelines, and ensuring that all components are supervised by qualified personnel.

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Health, Safety& Environmental Department

A personal fall arrest system is a system used to safely stop (arrest) a


worker who is falling from a working level. It consists of an anchorage,
connectors, and a body harness. It also may include a lanyard,
deceleration device, lifeline, or suitable combinations of these.
Body belts (safety belts) are prohibited for use as part of a personal
fall arrest system.

Characteristics of Personal Fall Arrest systems


- Limit the maximum arresting force on a worker to 1,800 pounds when
used with a body harness.
- Be rigged so that a worker can neither free fall more than 6 feet nor
contact any lower level
- Bring a worker to a complete stop and limit the maximum deceleration
distance a worker travels to 3.5 feet.
- Have sufficient strength to withstand twice the potential impact energy
of a worker free falling a distance of 6 feet or the free fall distance
permitted by the system, whichever is less.
- Be inspected prior to each use for wear, damage, and other
deterioration. Defective components must be removed from service.

Personal Fall Arrest System Components


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Snap-hooks
- Snap-hooks must be the locking type and designed and used to
prevent disengagement from any component part of the personal fall
arrest system.

- Locking type snap-hooks may also be used when designed for the
following connections:
• directly to webbing, rope, or wire rope
• to each other
• to a Dee-ring to which another snap-hook or other
connector is attached
• to a horizontal lifeline

Horizontal Lifelines
- Horizontal lifelines must be designed, installed, and used under the
supervision of a qualified person, as part of a complete personal fall
arrest system.
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Vertical Lifelines and Lanyards


- Vertical lifelines and lanyards must have a minimum breaking strength
of 5,000 pounds.
- Lifelines must be protected against being cut or abraded.

Self-retracting Lifelines and Lanyards


- Self-retracting lifelines and lanyards that automatically limit free fall
distance to 2 feet or less must be capable of sustaining a minimum
tensile load of 3,000 pounds applied to the device with the lifeline or
lanyard in the fully extended position.

- Self-retracting lifelines and lanyards which do not limit free fall distance
to 2 feet or less, ripstitch lanyards, and tearing and deforming lanyards
must be capable of sustaining a minimum tensile load of 5,000 pounds
applied to the device with the lifeline or lanyard in the fully extended
position.

Ropes and Straps


- Ropes and straps (webbing) used in lanyards, lifelines, and strength
components of body belts and body harnesses must be made of
synthetic fibers.

Anchorages
- Anchorages used to attach personal fall arrest systems must be
designed, installed, and used under the supervision of a qualified
person, as part of a complete personal fall arrest system which
maintains a safety factor of at least two. Alternatively, the anchorages
must be independent of any anchorage being used to support or
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suspend platforms and must be capable of supporting at least 5,000


pounds per worker attached or be capable of supporting at least twice
the expected impact load

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