Falling object protection system

Before you begin work on a project that requires fall protection (whenever you are working six feet or more above a lower level), your employer must provide all required fall protection equipment, and install all required fall and falling object protection systems. 

Selecting the proper falling object protection system. 

The correct procedure for erecting, maintaining, and disassembling the fall protection and falling object protection systems you... 

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You must provide and install all required fall and falling object protection before your employees begin work. OSHA s intent is that fall protection systems be in place at the earliest possible time when there is potential exposure to fall hazards. The equipment and systems must comply with fall protection rules at 1926.502 — Fall protection systems criteria and practices. The three most common (primary) methods of providing fall protection are guardrails, safety nets, and personal fall arrest systems. 

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I) Performance requirements for guardrail systems used on scaffolds and performance requirements for falling object protection used on scaffolds are provided in subpart L of this part. 

Guardrail systems, when used as falling object protection, shall have all openings small enough to prevent passage of potential falling objects. 

Except when portable ladders are used to gain access to fixed ladders (such as those on utility towers, billboards, and other structures where the bottom of the fixed ladder is elevated to limit access), when two or more separate ladders are used to reach an elevated work area, the ladders shall be offset with a platform or landing between the ladders. (The requirements to have guardrail systems with toeboards for falling object and overhead protection on platforms and landings are set forth in subpart M of this part.)... 

Only use personal fall arrest systems or components for employee fall protection (and not for lifting materials, tools, or other objects). 

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