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NIOSH Oil and Gas Extraction Safety and Health Program NIOSH states that "falls are one of the most common fatal events in the U.S. Oil and Gas extraction industry." For this reason, the NIOSH Oil and Gas Extraction Safety and Health Program has listed "Preventing Falls in Oil and Gas" as one of their research projects for 2012–2015. Any industry that has two-thirds of their workforce working at heights needs to focus on protecting themselves and their employees from the possibility of a fatal fall. NIOSH is pushing for an understanding and the correct use of fall protection systems in the Oil and Gas industry. If the experiences of other industries repeat, then a focus on utilizing personal fall protection equipment to abate the hazards will result. However, harnesses and lanyards alone aren't the answer to creating a safer workplace. The NIOSH Oil and Gas Extraction Safety and Health Program has targeted the industry to help them establish their fall protection safety programs and to prevent their workers from sustaining serious injuries or from dying. Over two-thirds of this targeted industry's workforce is working at heights where serious injury or death could occur if the worker fell without utilizing the proper ANSI Z359 personal fall prevention protocols or fall protection equipment to abate the fall hazard exposures. The implementation of the ANSI Z359.2 Managed Fall Protection Program will enable the oil and gas industry to implement the entire ANSI Z359 family of standards into the industry throughout the United States as well as other countries.
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The Problem History has shown that just realizing something needs to be done is not the fix; you have to be willing to reject ideas that fail to meet the goal. The traditional methodology for addressing safety for facilities, machines, or products is for owners, architects, engineers, consultants, contractors and vendors to complete the design, engineering, construction or fabrication of a project based on past knowledge, experience, and training. Safety, though, has typically not been one of the required skills for all project participants. Furthermore, the norm has not been to consider the safety of the people performing site work, construction, maintenance, fabrication, operation, and decommissioning at the conceptual stage. Rather, each party has been left to consider and create an individual safety strategy for their portion of the project activity. The focus of identified safety hazards remains on how the exposed worker can abate or avoid the hazard rather than how the design team, during the design stage, can eliminate the creation of that hazard or provide a safe work process. As safety professionals, our mantra should be nothing less than Sustainable Safety, which can be defined as integrating safety methods throughout the life cycle of a project, process or machine. A key element to Sustainable Safety is the ability to identify and address foreseeable hazards with effective countermeasure integration. So why do the "Commonly Used Statistics" from the United States Department of Labor paint such a bleak picture?Yearly, 3.3 million people are injured at work. Monthly, there are 62 construction related deaths. Weekly, disabling injuries cost employers over $1 billion. Daily, 12 people die on the job.
Introduction Vertical lifelines (hereafter VLLs) are a commonly used fall protection system due to their versatile nature and accessibility. However, because of improper use and lack of proper training, the protection provided by this system is often nullified. The most common misconceptions of the VLL system are its application, training requirements, compatibility with work activities and other fall protection system components, and its use as a rigid rail versus a flexible lifeline. In addition, the design criteria, which should be used by manufacturers and Qualified Persons, is a critical element in purchasing and using a safe vertical lifeline system.
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