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Harness Attachment Point Strength Ratings: What the Numbers Actually Cover
A harness attachment point is not simply a metal ring with a number stamped near it. It is a rated load path — webbing, stitching, adjusters and the ring or textile loop itself — that has been tested as an assembly. Understanding what those ratings mean, and where they stop applying, is the difference between…
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Which Attachment Points to Use for Restraint
Restraint work looks simple on paper: connect to an anchor with a tether short enough that the worker cannot physically reach the fall hazard. Because a fall is designed out of the system rather than arrested, the attachment point on the body does not have to absorb a fall load — which is exactly why…
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Harness Attachment Point for a Rope Grab: Sternal, Dorsal and What Not to Clip Into
A rope grab — a guided-type fall arrester running on a vertical rope or a mobile back-up device on a safety line — only performs as tested if it is connected to the right point on the harness, by the right connector, with nothing added in between. Clip it to the wrong ring and the…