You’d be astounded to know how little you have to fall do hurt or even kill yourself – a couple of metres. It’s understandable to take for granted your safety when you’re feeling able as you cut branches off the tree in your garden and have a lot of experience of working at height. However, even the most certain, knowledgeable roofer or tree surgeon has experienced serious injury while working off the ground. Why would that be? Because when something goes wrong, you’ve no time to react.You’re in the awful hands of Newton’s Law (gravity) til the unyielding earth checks your fall.
So it’s utterly vital you protect yourself from such accidents when working at height by using height safety equipment. It’s irrelevant if you’re only cutting a few limbs off a tree, fall arrest safety equipment is required.
So what kind of height safety equipment should you use? Well, depending on the chore you must perform, you may be thinking about one of the following: Pole straps, Harnesses (including full body harness and sit harness), Slings, Lanyards, Kits, Karabiners, Pulleys, Static line rope and rope protection, and rope grabs and connectors.
If you work at height professionally, such as forestry, quarries ,docks and ports, or construction engineering – you really should already have been disciplined in working safely at heights and be very familiar with height safety equipment. If otherwise, you’re putting yourself at a huge risk of a mishap.
