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Adjusting a Full Body Harness Correctly: Fit, Checks and Common Errors
A full body harness only performs as designed if it is adjusted to the person wearing it. The same harness, on the same worker, can be either a functioning fall arrest system or a loose assembly of webbing that shifts under load, depending on five minutes of setup at the start of the shift. Adjustment…
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Connector Locking Systems Compared: Screw-Lock, Two-Stage and Three-Stage Auto-Lock
Every rope access or confined-space system comes down to a handful of small metal parts that hold the whole thing together. The connector at the harness attachment point, at the anchor, on the descender and on the back-up device is where a system most often fails through human error rather than material failure — a…