If your employee's are using Fall Protection equipment, they need Fall Arrest Training. The Saskatchewan Construction Safety Association website states:
"If a worker at a worksite can fall 3 metres or more and is not protected by guardrails, the employer must develop a Fall Protection Plan that specifies:
- The fall hazard
- The fall protection to be used (including worker training)
- Procedures used to assemble, maintain, inspect, use, and disassemble the fall protection system
- Worker rescue procedures
- That the Fall Protection Plan is available before the work begins"
Northern Strands runs regular Fall Arrest Training courses throughout Saskatoon and Saskatchewan.
Click here for more information, http://www.northernstrands.com/fall-arrest.aspx
Fall Protection legislation has changed in Saskatchewan. These changes could seriously impact a person or business caught unaware.
Saskatchewan's Occupational Health and Safety Division conducts worksite and building inspections annually to ensure standards are known, understood and enforced. Beginning July 1, 2014 they were given the authority to administer Summary Offence Tickets(SOT s) as a tool to enforce and protect occupational health and safety. They are committed to an internal workplace responsibility system that recognizes that the efforts of the workplaces, not government, are the key in preventing occupational injuries. Employers, contractors, owners, suppliers, self-employed persons, supervisors and workers can all be ticketed under this system.