Rocky Mountain Environmental provides system design, engineering and supplies personal equipment.

• Harnesses and Lanyards
• Lifelines and Rope Grabs
• Retractable Lifelines
• Ladder Climbing Systems
• Horizontal Lifelines
• Fall Protection Kits

1. Understand the job and the work environment:

• Will workers be labouring at elevations where they will need fall protection?
• Can the hazards be engineered out?
• Can positioning or travel restrict equipment be relied upon to get the job done?
• Will it be necessary for a person to be suspended from the top of a structure?
• Does the job environment require retrieval equipment?
• Are there obstructions in the falling window?
• Are there chemicals that may damage the fall protection equipment?
• All risks that may be encountered must be taken into consideration!

2. Identify the specific job requirements:

• Determine proper anchorage points.
• In addition to personal fall protection, does the job require collective protection systems such as nets?
• Decide whether additional anchorage points or horizontal lifelines will be required to protect against serious injurious pendulum motions.

3. Know the appropriate Regulations:

• Learn about the type of protective equipment and systems which must be used on this job.

4. Determine which fall protection system or systems are needed:

• Choose a fall arrest, positioning, travel restrict, suspension, retrieval or a combination system which will satisfy the specific requirements of the application and the workplace geometry.

5. Select the proper body support:

• Belts can be used for work positioning and travel restrict applications only. In all other situations, a full body harness must be worn. Wherever possible, use available permanent fall restrict systems or, consider an appropriate personal travel restrict and/or work positioning systems in preference to a fall arrest system.