How has Capital Safety addressed 3,600-lb. within its own product line?
Developing new hooks and carabiners to comply with the new gate strength requirements and ensuring that the hooks were continuously available required a significant amount of work. During the transition periods, the new hooks, as well as the original hooks, needed to be supported. A second set of SKUs were created for lanyards with the new hooks. Harnesses are manufactured for workers between 130-310 lbs. fully loaded. How has Capital Safety addressed harnesses for total worker loads more than 310 lbs.? Capital Safety offers harnesses with a capacity of 420 lbs. We have designed a test program to verify that the harness is capable of supporting this weight. Tom Wolner, you served as Z359.4 Subcommittee Chair. How do you believe the standard, “Safety Requirements for Assisted-Rescue and Self-Rescue Systems, Subsystems and Components” (ANSI/ASSE Z359.4), will change rescue procedures? The major focus of the Z359.4 standard was to emphasize the need for preplanning each potential rescue s
