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Anyone who uses a safety rope and safety harness to protect themselves against falling needs the right material and serious training and education. Improper use of personal fall protection equipment (PPE) can have fatal consequences.

 

The principle applies that protective measures must be taken if the fall height is more than 2.0 meters.

 

When is fall protection equipment used? 

 

Priority is given to collective protective devices such as scaffolding, safety nets, railings, aerial work platforms, etc. However, it is not always technically possible to install such devices during construction, assembly, repair and maintenance work. In these cases, personal fall protection equipment must be used.

 

Working with PSAgA (rope protection) falls under:

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“Work with particular risks”. This means that PPEgA may only be used by verifiably trained and trained personnel.  

We train your employees according to Suva guidelines.

 

Training to become an expert in working with PPE

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Principles:

• Collective protection (roofing barriers, safety nets, etc.) has absolute priority. Only use PPE to prevent falls if collective protection is not technically possible.

• Only allow work with PPE to prevent falls to be carried out by personnel who have been verifiably trained (VUV Art. 5 and 8)

• The company must use its own resources to ensure that a person who has fallen on the rope is rescued within 10-20 minutes.

 

Education:

• Basic training for users of PPE against falls

• Practice-oriented specialist training (minimum duration 1 day)
  For details see Suva Mekblatt 44002

 

Proof of training:

• Proof of training must be available upon request
  (Duration, date, training facility, trainer, learning content)

 

Further training / repeat course:

• Rescuing people who have fallen

• Planning of anchor devices / project-specific systems

• Creation of project-specific safety and rescue concepts

• Expert “Checking PPE against falls”

• Repeat courses/refresher courses