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Safety Tips for Working at Height

Did you know that one of the most common causes of significant work-related injuries and fatalities is falls from heights? Employers must ensure that they take all essential precautions to reduce the danger of their employees falling from a height, from proactive hazard awareness to ongoing site inspection.

Make sure you're following all of your employer's rules.

Do’s And Don’ts in Working at Height

Do’s

When working near a delicate surface, use caution.

DO make sure you're safe from falling things.

Prepare for evacuations and rescues in the event of an emergency.

While you're on the ground, get as much work done as you can.

Ascertain that employees can securely access and exit the location where they will be operating at height.

Make sure the equipment you're utilizing for the project is robust, stable, and capable of completing the task. Regularly inspect and maintain them.

Don’ts

DON’T allow incompetent workers do any work at height.

DON’T lean or place the ladder on or fragile upper surfaces.

DON’T stay quiet when you feel someone is compromising their own safety or the safety of others

DON’T overload the ladders that they are working on, with equipment or materials.

DON’T try to reach too far when you’re on a ladder.

DON’T use ladders to do work that entails heavy or strenuous tasks. Only use them to do work that’s quick and light.

 Managing the Risk at Workplace

Prior to working at height, competent personnel must prepare an ERP for every other work at height that is decided by a risk assessment. The Regulation and the Code stipulate the need for emergency and rescue procedures. Consideration should be given to:

Communications

Rescue and resuscitation equipment

Capabilities of rescuers

First aid

Local emergency services.

 Use the Proper Equipment for Working at Heights

You’ve got the equipment you need to ensure a protected work environment, you need to ensure you’re choosing the proper equipment.

However, PPE, on the other hand, should be inspected by the user before each usage. It's critical that everybody who might be utilising the devices knows what they're looking for, what's appropriate and what to do if something goes wrong. A pre-use inspection doesn't have to take long, but it should be thorough. It's possible that one action will mean the difference between life and death.

Conclusion

Without the workers' assistance, the height safety message is constantly at risk of being disregarded, misconstrued, or overlooked. As a result, all efforts must encourage and engage personnel.

The regulations are in existence to protect workers from such height safety concerns, but they are frequently disregarded, misconstrued, not followed, not enforced, or, perhaps most dangerous of all, complacency. If you have all of your workers selling the same height safety messages you best enable your business to eradicate the biggest working at heights.

So if employees understand why and what they need to do and comply with employers’ directions, we can then focus on removing complacency as it is replaced with a new normal.

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WHY ENSURE SAFE CONSULTANCY?

Injury risk is reduced by following good workplace health, safety, wellbeing, and hygiene practices. We are the originators of the first guide on occupational health and safety, whether you work at height every day, working safely should always remain a top priority.

It takes one mistake to turn a routine task into a serious injury or fatality. Every time your employees may be exposed to a fall hazard, you must be prepared to protect them.

Training and Guidance

Assist the Faculty and Heads of Professional Support Services and the Roof Permits to Work Issues in the selection of suitable equipment

Assist in the creation and execution of audits relating to working at heights and related equipment. To ensure the safe use of any work at height equipment, develop and implement training for Roof Permit to Work Issuers, Employees, and Users. Be in charge of keeping this policy and process up to date.

Assist in the undertaking of Roof Audits

A proper work at height risk assessment should be carried out in order to set workable work at height management measures. This will aid in the development of appropriate control mechanisms for work at height activities. As a result, it’s critical that the employer analyses the risks and assesses the dangers so that work may be done safely.

Risk Assessment Guidance

In the event that works at height cannot be avoided, a suitable and sufficient risk assessment MUST be undertaken. The results of this risk assessment must be used to build a safe work system, which includes the implementation of emergency procedures. The assessment and method statement (safe system of work) must be put down if the risks are severe.

Assessing the Risks

All available information on the task to be done must be available and consulted for assessing risk.

All foreseeable risks must be assessed ahead of time, and the following factors may need to be taken into account.

• Working from a ladder

• Working from a scaffold or scaffold tower

• Working on rooftops without proper fixed protection

•Working on roofs with unprotected roof lights

Rescue Plan

A rescue must be included in every method statement that discusses how an injured worker can be safely removed. When a safety harness is utilized as a control measure, the quickness of response is critical.

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SAFETY RULES THAT ARE ESSENTIAL TO FOLLOW WORK AT HEIGHT

Training can be from awareness and management in order to avoid working at height; skills, equipment and discipline to reduce the risk, likelihood or harm; and must include ensuring others around you are safe too!

These safety rules are not only for workers but everybody must know these rules before going to do work at height in home or office. in this Article we will discuss about all the important equipment which we often use in work at height  we will discuss about following equipment one by one, i hope you will learn a lot from this article and will implement these rules in your daily life. 1. Ladder Safety 2. Scaffolding 3. Mobile Scaffolding 4.Elevating work platforms 5.Safety Harness

Ladder safely

When using a ladder you should 

Always face towards the ladder while climbing up or     down 

Only move up or down the ladder one rung at a time 

Always keep three point contact 

Keep your body centered within the ladder stiles

Climb down from the ladder if you need to reposition     it. 

At workplace workers normally use scaffolding for work at height. scaffold  is temporary work plateforms which is used to perform certain task with ease and safety. The first thing in using scaffold is Scaffold Erection. Only competent scaffolders should erect the scaffold. After completion competent Scaffolding inspector or supervisor inspect the scaffold and when the approve then workers are allowed to use it. 

Scaffolding

if a person is going to work above 6 feet or 1.8 meter  should protect himself by means of guardrail systems or personal fall arrest systems.

Guardrail system

Guardrail system shall be able to withstand a force of at least 90kg. (200 lbs.) It consists

1.Toprails - top edge height of toprails shall not be less than 0.95 m. (38 “) and not more than 1.15 m.  (45”) above the walking/working surface of a platform

2.Midrails – installed approximately halfway between the walking/working surface and toprail

3.Toeboards – shall have no more than 6 mm. (1/4”) gap above the working surface and should withstand a force of at least 23 kg (50 lbs).

4.Uprights – shall not be spaced more than 2.7 m. (9 ft.) apart

scaffolding ladder should have 75 degree angle with ground or 4:1 ( 4 meter vertical then 1 meter horizontal) and 0.9 meter or 3 rungs  should be above the platform

Elevating work platforms

Barricade under and around the elevating work platform

Keep all tools in bag or bucket

enter and exit only through gate

keep basket gate closed and locked while working 

wear full body harness ( in picture no harness) and anchor     inside the basket

Safety Harness

Stops the falls and spreads the impact shock over a large area of the body and allows a fall to be stopped or arressted without causing body injury the maximum free fall distance is 1.8 metre the safety harness must be attached to a lanyard (length 2 meter) with a built in shock absorber or self-retracting lanyard the anchorage point must be strong to support the body weight before use must check the harnsess for any signs of wear or damage. The lanyard is firmly attached to harness make sure anchor point is positioned above where you are working never use damaged equipment.

Ensure Safe Consultancy will enable delegates to:

Assess, combine and use anchors

Be able set up and use work restraint,     work positioning and fall arrest

Fit and use a harness, lanyards and other     PPE

Build systems using slings, connectors,     inertia reels and associated height equipment

Move around, secure themselves, their     equipment and perform tasks at height

Perform immediate casualty care to a     casualty in suspension

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Why ISO 9001 certification is important when you provide a service

For more than half a century, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has been developing standards to protect society from potential errors. It’s been more than three decades since the introduction of the Quality Management System standards model, ISO 9001, specifically.

The most current version, ISO 9001:2015 was adopted to address fulfilling regulatory requirements and customer satisfaction through continuous improvement of the quality system. The standards apply worldwide and provide consumers with a base-level confidence in an organization’s ability to provide conforming products.

ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems as A Standard Of Quality, Credibility And Reliability

The markets of today are dynamic and ever-changing, and the businesses operating in them are adaptive and flexible. To thrive in the current business ecosystem, a company has to do more than just keeping its performance up year after year. It needs to prove its competency in the industry and across disciplines.

Audit Your Business Process for Implementing ISO Standard Prepare a Well-planned Auditing Method

Understand the ISO standard’s requirements minutely which can be ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001, or anything else.

Determine the departments whose processes need auditing. The departments that need to be audited depend on the type, size, and hierarchy of the organization. In case, you are unable to understand which departments should be assessed, you need to think which departments are integrated with the management system.

Select the Right Team of Auditors

Audits are mostly performed by experienced officials from within the management team of the company. But, for assistance and better clarity in the process, you can hire external audit experts. Ensure Safe Consultancy is a leading trusted auditing company helped clients in all different industries to enhance the quality of their service. Our strategic approach to assessing, designing, implementing, and maintaining your integrated management systems, provides a solid framework for operational success and excellence in customer service.

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PRACTICES AND TOOLS TO MINIMIZE RISK INVOLVED WHILE WORKING AT HEIGHT

Work at Height - What it means?

Work at height means working in a place where a person could be injured if they fell from one level to another. This can be above or below ground level.

HOW TO MINIMIZE HAZARD WHILE WORKING AT HEIGHT

 A hazard assessment shall be carried out for all work at height. It is essential that the hazards are identified before the work starts and that the necessary equipment, appropriate precautions, and systems of work are provided and implemented.

 Preventing falls from height is a priority for the work scenario as it expects that work at height is actively managed so that people are not harmed. The best method of hazard control is eliminating the potential of a fall. Appropriate fall prevention controls shall be put in place, regardless of the time duration of the task. Meanwhile, Consideration of elimination controls should occur early in the project development stage to allow necessary design, planning, and coordination. Established controls, starting with the most effective – elimination, and then working through isolation and minimization can proceed. if there is a potential for a person at work to fall from any height, reasonable assistance for selecting the best equipment for keeping people safe at height. 

 TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT

 Here we can discuss the range of controls to isolate or minimize the potential for harm resulting from a fall.

 1) GROUP CONTROL APPROACH

 The preferred approach is to apply group controls that isolate multiple workers from the risk of falling.

 a) Scaffolding

 The scaffold is used as a means of protecting people working on a roof, it is preferred that the scaffold is set up in a manner that prevents a fall from occurring, regardless of the distance of the fall. Scaffolds are a common way to provide a safe work platform. There are a wide variety of scaffolding systems available.

 b) Safety mesh

 Safety mesh is the preferred system for protecting construction workers against falling through a roof while they are laying roof sheets. If securely fixed, it also provides fall prevention for maintenance and repair workers.

 2) HARNESS SYSTEM

 A harness system enables a person to be positioned and safely supported at a work location for the duration of the task being undertaken at height. Harness systems are used for gaining access to, and working at, a workforce where there is a risk of a fall.

 3)KNUCKLE BOOM

 A knuckle boom has a second articulated joint partway along the arm to allow for extra flexibility and reach for the work platform. The arm can be folded away when not in use, and to vary the reach in use.

 4)GUARDRAILS

 A guardrail is a barrier that is capable of physically preventing workers from falling. Guardrails are a group control that can be installed to protect workers from building edges, roof edges, building openings, lift shafts and other similar ducts with a wall or floor openings.

 5) MOBILE ELEVATING WORK PLATFORMS (MEWPS)

 Common forms of MEWPs include cherry pickers, scissor lifts, hoists, and travel towers.

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