Category Archives: Fall Protection

Working at Heights in South Africa – Insights from PSG’s Dylan Sutherland Part 1

Join us for an introduction to working at heights in South Africa. In part 1 of this episode, we focus on the unique challenges, risks, and the critical importance of comprehensive on-site assessments.

Understanding Working at Heights Training in South Africa: Duration, Training Content, and Height Requirements

Working at heights in South Africa is a critical safety concern that necessitates rigorous training and strict adherence to regulations. This article explores the duration of training, the content covered, and the considerations for height requirements related to working at elevated positions.

Mitigating Risks When Working at Heights

Working at heights involves inherent risks that necessitate proactive measures to ensure safety. We provide three steps to follow prior to working at height to mitigate these risks, based on industry best practices.

The Importance of Simulation in Work at Heights Training

The complexities of working at heights demand both theoretical understanding and practical, hands-on experience. The value of simulations in controlled environments stands out as a crucial element of effective training, aimed at ensuring employee safety on site and minimising downtime for companies.

Understanding the Basics of Lockout and Tagout

What Lockout / Tagout is: When it comes to both life and business, energy matters! Whether it is wind energy, electricity, gasoline powered engines or the energy that fuels our bodies, we depend on energy to function. Energy, however, is extremely dangerous and even fatal when not controlled. Being able to switch a plug on […]

Anchor Point and Lifeline Installation Into Suitable Structures

A common challenge we find when our clients need to setup Anchor Points or Lifelines is where to safely connect. There are different types of Anchor points, in this article we will be covering Permanent Anchors specifically. Let us keep in mind the entire fall arrest system is subjected to vicious dynamic forces whilst arresting […]

Understanding the Hierarchy of Fall Protection

You would think that the first and most important piece of equipment that should be issued to someone who needs to perform a duty at heights is, without a doubt, a Safety Harness and Lanyard. Simply issuing PPE equipment isn’t necessarily the “safest” course of action though. There are two important factors that need to […]

Understanding Fall Clearance

There is a significant lack of information, education and consideration given to systems, procedures and general fall clearance awareness. I want to share a story from a recent encounter I had on a massive site we are assisting – The reason I think this story is so valuable to share is that it is a […]

Introduction to Work at Heights

How not to do it: the Gung-Ho approach I had a team of workmen repairing the roof of my house, which is built on a slope, so it’s a single storey high on one side, double on the other – high enough for a fall on one side to be life threatening and probably fatal […]

Dropping Tools Challenges and Solutions: Screwdriver

Watch episode 2 in our 5 part series on Dropping Tools – Ensuring you have a solution for safely securing tools up to 36.6kg – Protect your work force and your tools. Learn and implement the ‘TAC’ system to ensure maximum safety. Contact us for your Work at Heights Equipment, Services and Training needs.