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General Principles for Work at Height: The Order of Decisions Before You Rig
Most work-at-height failures are not equipment failures. They are ordering failures: someone chose a harness before checking whether the anchor could sit overhead, or chose a lanyard before measuring the clearance below the work position, or planned the access without planning the retrieval. The general principles for work at height exist to fix that order…
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Selecting a Rescue Kit for the Task
A rescue kit is only useful if it matches the rescue you have actually planned for. The most common failure is not equipment failure – it is a kit that can lower but not raise, a rope that is shorter than the drop, or a retrieval winch bolted to a tripod over a shaft that…
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Confined Space Entry: The Permit Sequence, Step by Step
A confined space entry permit is not paperwork that happens alongside the job. It is the job’s control document: a written statement that a specific space, on a specific shift, has been assessed, isolated, tested and staffed, and that a named person has authorised entry under those conditions and no others. When entries go wrong,…