Fall-Protection and Scissor Lifts

摘要

In the September 2009 issue of Construction Equipment, we put together a Safety Illustrated article about fall protection. In the article, we provided a graphic of an operator tethered to a scissor lift to illustrate the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's national standards for fall protection. Bill Hindman, president of Industrial Marketing Systems, read our safety article and pointed out that OSHA does not require workers to use fall-protection equipment in scissor lifts. OSHA, however, does require using fall protection in boom-type lifts.