You’d be stunned to know how little you have to fall do wound or even kill yourself – a couple of metres. It’s easy to feel assured when you feel capable up on your roof , especially if you have plenty of work experience of working at height. Even so, even the most surefooted, experienced tree surgeon or roofer has succumbed to serious injury when working at height. Why? Because when something goes wrong, you have ZERO opportunity to react. Once Newton’s Law takes over, you have no opportunity to correct the error.

Therefore absolutely essential you protect yourself from such falls when working at height by using height safety equipment. It’s irrelevant if you’re just cutting a couple of branches from a tree in your garden, arrest equipment like safety anchors is requisite.

So what type of height safety equipment should you utilize? Depending on the task you must perform, you may be considering any in this list: Pole straps, Harnesses (including full body harness and sit harness), Slings, Lanyards, Kits, Karabiners, Pulleys, Static line rope and rope protection, and rope grabs and connectors.

If you work at height in your daily job, for example construction engineering, quarries ,docks and ports – you really should have been drilled in height safety and be au fait with safety equipment. If not, you are placing yourself at great risk.

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