OSHA Considers Tightening Rules on Vehicle Fall Protection

Yes, but I don't think the driver would then meet the upcoming "BMI"

 

OSHA can kiss my #$$. So can MSHA. 99.9% of safety happens in the space between your ears, and if you aren't paying attention to what you are doing, NO amount of PPE will stop you from hurting yourself.

Fall protection is a joke in most places....designed by engineers with college degrees, and I'm sure it all looked GREAT on paper...but this is the real world. I've been to sites where the "fall protection" they mandate that I use is more likely to CAUSE me to fall than it is to catch me in the unlikely event that I lose my footing and fall on my own. Sad thing is, the plant personnel KNOW this and yet these fall protection devices remain in use (and you will be banned from the facility if you choose not to use them).

In my opinion, a poorly designed/implemented "fall protection" system opens a company up to MORE liability than if they offered NO fall protection at all...ESPECIALLY if they mandate it's use. You had better believe that if their fall protection causes me to fall and I suffer ANY injury at all, my lawyer will be called before the ambulance arrives.

 

The average flatbed trailer is over 4 feet also.
But I would like to have anything I can get in the way of rules to keep me off the top of a van trailer.
I can tell you as a fact that I am not going on top of one to clean snow off. So I would like to have the rules there and printed out, so that I can show them to the officer that pulls me over.

 

Or any company that would want you to do it as well.

 

We have to take the good with the bad. We're not climbing atop reefers and dry vans to remove snow. Therefore, we must accept the rule may be a little over the top, but necessary.

 

Try tarping a load of wall board wearing one of these devices your more likely to fall wearing it than not, a cement plant i pick up makes you wear one and its the biggest joke i've every seen all it does is get in the way and make you stumble and almost fall more than if ya did'nt have it on,now a van is a diffrent story you should not be on top of one without fall pertection.