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It's more than just a harness that you put on and a lanyard or retractable. You have to look into it of how the harness is put on. Make sure that you're wearing it properly because if you do have a fall, I want you to be as comfortable as you can be in an uncomfortable situation. This video is brought to you by Honeywell. The future is what we make it. If you're looking for real world insights, tips from leading industry experts, the latest trends in products and technology, you've come to the right place from MSC Industrial Supply. This is tooling up. Hello and welcome to Tooling U. I'm your host, Tony Meri, and I'm so glad that you've joined us here today. Before we get to today's guest, we have a little group activity. So everybody get your clicking fingers ready to go. And on the count of three, you're gonna make sure you click the like and subscribe buttons. Ready 123. Great. Now you'll never miss an episode of tooling up like this one. Today. I'm really excited to talk about fall preventions and some of the updates to the standards with Don Crawford. Don is the safety training specialist at Honeywell. Don, thanks for joining us and welcome to Tooling Up. Tony, thank you for having me on Tooling up. I look forward to talking to you about fall prevention and fall protection with some of the equipment at Honeywell House to offer. Fantastic. And Don, I love to learn about people's background. So pardon the pun, but how did you fall into fall prevention? I've just retired after 31 years and being in public safety. I was a firefighter for 23 years, is a career firefighter for a municipality in Pennsylvania over the years of being involved as a paramedic and and prior life also. The emergency room nurse I seen how falls can cause issues not only in the workplace but also people at home. When I was working at the fire department we would always assist the ambulance on medical calls and unfortunately was my father is where I went on the medical call too. He worked as a maintenance man at a office building and we got called to the office building for older male that fell and whenever I was responding to that location it matched his age and he would be the only one that would be working off of a ladder went and. Joked with my dad whenever I saw him laying on the floor, I joked with him like what are you doing laying down on the job? But unfortunately my dad was up three steps off a step ladder and he fell backwards landing on his back. We did what we normally did. We took him to the hospital, actually the emergency room where I worked as a nurse. He got great care there was discharged, didn't see anything. But unfortunately whenever 24 hours later his legs went numb and here found out that he had two broken vertebrae in his back just by the position that he landed. And it was a whole year process to learn how to walk. In major surgery, so very devastating and it's a long process to get our family back to where we need to be after that occurred. And with your depth of experience, I'm assuming that you really could have gone anywhere to work. So tell us why you chose Honeywell. Reason why I chose Honeywell was there were a leader in public safety. Miller fall protection has been around for almost 80 years old, actually well over 80 years now. And their leader in fall prevention, fall protection equipment, the training department they have is top notch. Safety is a mind by all the trainers and I got brought in because I was able to adapt to the training needs that they had and I had the skill set that they were looking for. I love that. And let's bring a little into fall protection in the workplace and why it is so important is at home and in the workplace. Falling is a problem in the United States and one of the places that we can prevent falls from happening is in the workplace with the equipment that is provided by not only us by by other manufacturers in the United States. In the construction industry, deaths from falls is the number one. Cause of deaths and construction not having the proper equipment is the number one most cited along with the number 8 most cited OSHA citations go to fall protection training. So not only not using the equipment properly or having availability to protect yourself at heights, but also that training element becomes an issue now that they're citing for because they realize that in the United States we're not training our individuals how to use the equipment properly. Let's get down to the nitty gritty and let's talk about the recent updates to the ANSI Z359 standards. That are really relative for fall protection products. The big changes that occurred from the products that were in the prior standard is how we use them and how they were labeled and how they are tested. And the old standard, what we had was they were labeled as Type A or Type B. And with type A units, Type A units had to lock you up and stop you with a maximum arrest distance. So the distance that you would fall in 24 inches, Type B units were required to lock you up and stop you within 54 inches. From there the units are typically with self retracting life lines or devices or usually used above your back. But they ran into issues with now folks working near edges where they don't have any anchors above and what we call leading edge. And we had to design systems to protect us that way because the ones that are there. So for tracking devices that were used above you couldn't do the have the same safety as what it is hooking up for below you. So the new standard of change they renamed the classes. So instead of being type A, type B, they renamed it as class. One or Class 2. And with that, both units are designed to stop you within 42 inches. But the difference between them now is Class 1 is only allowed to be used between your back D ring and up. So like going our harness here from that back D ring or your shoulders up, Class 2 we're allowed to use for more feet all the way up above. So if you're working over or close to an edge, you don't have a good anchor point. You would have to now use a Class 2 device. With that being said, the verbiage has changed now. So self retracting life lines. Or basically covers anything from a standard one to be able to use it over your shoulders or tie off at your feet for leading edge work. And then the other one is they change the sulfur retracting lifeline for retrieval and those devices are designed for that. If somebody was going into a confined space or in an area that I can actually bring them up out of the space safely. So Dan, we talked a little bit about Class 1 and Class 2 and some of the changes, but what type of industries are really using these devices? Individuals that are working in factories, facilities are typically using more. So I would say the Class 1 units because they're only there were anchors are located directly overhead. Where you start to see more of Class 2 being used would be more in construction because they on top of a building where they're working, they don't have any anchor points overhead. So they're going to have to be hooking up at their feet while they're doing that area during the work. One other place we're going to see more class twos being used. Is typically in lifts, so one of our devices that we have here the a personal one, it's going to be designed to be used on your back. It's designed to be able to be hooked up into a lift into the anchor points where our class ones we're not we're not currently allowed to do that because they have to be used directly overhead. But the class twos that I have shown here can be hooked up below your back D ring obviously in your lift. So that's going to provide the protection and be used in a proper manner. And now let's really get into the meat of the conversation. And for me that is there's a lot of. Of equipment, there's a lot of options out there, but using them correctly and consistency is probably, you know, one of the biggest problems out there. So tell me a little bit about the training that Honeywell does to really teach people the right devices, how to use them, how often to use them to make sure that they're making the right choices. Yeah. So our instructors and our courses that we run covers all of the equipment that you see here. It's more than just a harness that you put on and a lanyard or retractable. There's items or you have to look into it of how the harness is put on. Mexican you're wearing it properly because if you do have a fall, I want you to be as comfortable as you can be in an uncomfortable situation. So we teach you how to your fall clearance calculations, what you need to read on the label to make sure that you have enough room underneath you so that whenever you do fall that you don't hit the ground. Don, I cannot thank you enough for your time today. So educational, so informative and such a great service at Honeywell is out there offering to make sure that everybody does go home safe. Thank you for having us on tooling up. I really do appreciate it. I hope you get some informative information and with the new. Changes in the standards and the new equipment is coming out. It's important to have that adequate training so you're always safe out there. It was great hanging out with John today. 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