"Personal Fall Protection Used in Construction and Demolition Operations"

This standard establishes safety requirements and performance criteria for active fall protection systems and their associated equipment used in construction and demolition. This includes guidelines for the planning, configuration, selection, installation, user training, operation, inspection and maintenance of equipment that is utilized in active fall protection systems. These systems create a personal interface with the worker via fitted equipment worn on the body while performing construction and demolition tasks at heights.

An explicit set of requirements to be satisfied by a material, product, system, or service: Examples of specifications include, but are not limited to, requirements for; physical, mechanical, or chemical properties, and safety, quality, or performance criteria. A specification identifies the test methods for determining whether each of the requirements is satisfied.

Document, established by consensus that provides rules, guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results.

All items of clothing and/or accessories (whether or not detachable) designed and manufactured to provide specific protection. This includes bullet-proof clothing, general protective clothing and full body ensembles that protect from cuts, radiation, temperature extremes, hot splashes from molten metals and other hot liquids, potential impacts from tools, machinery and materials and hazardous chemicals. Examples of body protection include laboratory coats, coveralls, vests, jackets, aprons, surgical gowns and full body suits

• Connectors
• Fall arrest systems
• Fall arresters
• Safety belts, harnesses, lanyards and lifelines
• Positioning and travel restraint
• Rescue systems

• Falls

• 47-2000 Construction Trades Workers
  • 47-2061 Construction Laborers

ANSI/ASSE Z359.1-2020 - The Fall Protection Code - Part of the Fall Protection Code