According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 40 percent of all fatalities in the construction industry are the result of a fall, making them the greatest cause of death in construction-related accidents.
Fall protection demonstrations
To help combat this sobering but preventable statistic, global safety equipment manufacturer, MSA Safety Incorporated will host fall protection demonstrations throughout the United States of America, from May 7 - 11, 2018, during OSHA's annual National Safety Stand-Down initiative.
As part of this week-long safety ‘blitz’, now in its fifth year, MSA Safety Incorporated will provide free, OSHA-compliant fall protection demonstrations at construction jobsites across the U.S utilizing MSA’s fleet of mobile training vehicles.
Training on Personal Protective Equipment use
MSA’s 50-person team of fall protection and confined space safety experts will highlight basic fall protection principles
MSA’s 50-person team of fall protection and confined space safety experts will highlight basic fall protection principles and necessary personal protective products through demos and hands-on training, covering topics such as ANSI/OSHA standards compliance, components of a fall-arrest system, equipment inspection and confined space applications.
In the past two years alone, MSA Safety Incorporated has trained more than 20,000 workers on how to best check, inspect and use their life-saving fall protection equipment.
2018 National Safety Stand-Down
“OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down is a simple and focused way to remind workers and their employers of the risks of working at heights, and the steps they can take to mitigate those risks in order to return safely home each and every day,” said Eleni Lucido, Vice President and General Manager of MSA Safety’s business in the U.S. and Canada.
Eleni adds, “As a safety company dedicated to seeing to ‘that men and women may work in safety,’ MSA is committed to helping prevent these falls through proper training and the design of innovative products that will continue to raise the bar in fall protection safety.”