Fall protection training is unique. It can be modified to address the specific requirements at your workplace. Acute Safety & Safety Services is here to help. In this article, you will learn who needs fall protection training, what it involves, and where to take it. When it comes time to register, contact ACUTE. We offer solutions to all of your health and safety training needs by emphasizing client participation and establishing rapport in all of our classes.
Fall Protection Training: 3 Things You Need to Know
1. Who needs fall protection training?
Fall protection is defined by the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development as “A method of minimizing the possibility of falling.” Without proper fall protection training, there is a greater likelihood of employee injury. It’s therefore imperative that you help your employees prepare for scenarios that have not been encountered.
The purpose of a fall protection training program includes:
- Strengthen workplace safety culture by elevating the profile and importance of preventing falls from heights.
- Provide workers who may be exposed to the hazard of falling with adequate knowledge about fall hazards and general safety practices to work safely at heights.
- Provide workers who use personal fall protection equipment with sufficient knowledge about its purpose and use; and
- Reduce the number of fall-from-heights incidents, injuries, and fatalities.
This course is not a replacement for working at heights training. That is required for all construction project workers under Ontario Regulation 213/91. Fall protection training falls under section 26.2 of that regulation: “An employer shall ensure that a worker who may use a fall protection system is adequately trained in its use and given adequate oral and written instructions by a competent person.”
This training is intended for those who will be working at heights in an industrial and agricultural setting, mining operations, health care and residential facilities, and other workplaces that are not construction projects.
If you will be wearing a fall protection system on the job, then this training is for you.
2. What you will learn
As mentioned above, fall protection training can be modified to specifically address your workplace’s unique requirements. On a general level, though, this is what you will learn, using ACUTE’s course as an example:
- Sector-specific legislation
- When is Working at Height training required?
- Fall from elevation hazards
- Controlling fall hazards
- Hierarchy of controls
- Fall prevention strategies and systems
- Fall protection systems
- Ladder safety
- Harness inspection and fitting exercise & evaluation
- Lanyard inspection exercise and evaluation
- Rescue plan – components and purpose
- Safe anchor exercise
It is a four-hour session, and the information will be presented through:
- Classroom interaction with experienced instructors
- Demonstration and hands-on training in the care and use of equipment
- Detailed handouts
- Videos
- Quizzes
- Practical performance evaluations.
There are online training options, but there are serious limitations with that route, which you can read more about here. Additionally, we use examples and scenarios that are specific to your company and that you know your employees will be facing in their work.
Fall protection training can be modified to specifically address your workplace’s specific requirements.
3. Where to take fall protection training
Fall protection training can be conducted right at your facility, or offsite – at ACUTE’s state of the art training facility, for example. Choose whichever will suit your needs best. There are some great benefits to both approaches.
By completing your training on-site, you can save your staff travel time. By completing your training at ACUTE’s facility, you can benefit from our spacious, high-quality, tailored training facility. Additionally, we will be sure to incorporate your corporate policies and procedures right into the training course we conduct for your employees.
Fall protection training can be conducted right at your workplace, or at ACUTE’s state of the art facility.
Trust ACUTE for Fall Protection Training!
ACUTE offers a range of health and safety training programs, and with over 100 years of combined experience, our staff have much more than just theoretical teaching to offer.
We have first-hand experience in a variety of workplace situations. That allows us to offer the same high-quality training classes across a broad range of subjects, including fall protection training.
We want to build a relationship with our clients. ACUTE’s president and co-owner Ron Campbell says, “At the end of the day we want to make sure our clients go home safe and sound to their families. That’s what we do”.
“Acute Safety & Safety Services has been provided OABA members in the agri business sector with excellent training services since January, 2018. OABA recommends ACUTE as a quality health and safety training provider.”
– Dave Buttenham
Read more customer reviews here.
Located in Waterloo, ACUTE services customers from cities such as Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Milton, Kitchener, London, Guelph, and others across Ontario.
For all OABA members, please contact the ACUTE office prior to registration.
