Preventing Falls in the Workplace –
The Rules Have Changed (For the Better)
With
Patric McCon
Senior Risk Engineering Consultant
Zurich North America
May 16, 2018
Luncheon Meeting – 11:30 a.m. til 1 p.m.
Brennan's Party Center
Cleveland, Ohio 44111
Like many standards of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the rules for Walking and Working Surfaces in General Industry (the rules that cover manufacturing and most other industries in the United States) were very old. The standard (located at 29CFR1910 Subpart D) was originally written in 1971 and had undergone nearly no changes. This was remedied on January 1, 2017 when the newly-rewritten Subpart D took effect.
Mr. McCon will show how the rules are now clearer, they offer more options to prevent workplace falls and many of the requirements are performance-based rather than prescriptive. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports an average of 261 fatal workplace falls to a lower level from 2006 to 2012. During the same period there was an average of 48,379 lost-workday injuries each year. The human toll as well as the economic costs of these injuries make it imperative that employers take positive steps to prevent them.
Patric McCon is a Senior Risk Engineering Consultant for Zurich and responsible for providing valuable consulting services to customer operations managers, risk managers, and safety managers. Based in the Cleveland area, Pat provides service to accounts throughout North America. Pat is a Certified Safety Professional, Certified Fire Protection Specialist, and a Hazardous Materials Manager, an OSHA General Industry 10 and 30-Hour course trainer, Instructor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State Fire Academy and Adjunct Instructor, Cuyahoga Community College Environmental Health and Safety Technology degree programs.
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