The Importance of an Effective Fall Protection Program
Applied Technical Services helps clients design, implement, and maintain a comprehensive fall protection program. Installed on buildings to make working at heights safe, fall protection systems prevent workplace injuries and fatalities caused by falling from elevated work environments. Workers are attached to a series of anchor points and cables via a lanyard and harness.
The configuration of these systems often incorporates aspects of two different categories of fall protection:
- Fall Restraint: minimizing or eliminating the possibility of a fall before it can happen, often achieved through either an exterior parapet wall along rooftops or restricting the worker’s movement towards the edge through a fall restraint system (e.g., horizontal lifelines or guardrail)
- Fall Arrest: catching the worker after a fall has occurred to prevent injury
A fall protection system may be installed in a variety of locations beyond commercial buildings, such as bridges, railyards, container ports, industrial plants, and other elevated work environments that may require a fall protection program to protect workers from danger, as specified by OSHA and ANSI/ASSE. ATS provides a range of services to help clients comply with these safety regulations.
Our Services and How They Can Help
Our commercial services division assists clients through every stage of implementing and maintaining an effective fall protection program. Our group of licensed Professional Engineers (PEs) designs fall protection systems for new constructions and can retrofit fall protection systems for structures without them. They carefully consider the workspace’s needs and identify the optimal configuration of elements.
Our expert technicians and consultants install fall protection components to standard specifications, testing to verify that newly installed systems support the load intended before one of our PEs certifies them as safe for use.
Safety Compliance and Certification
As safety regulations and building codes require periodic reexamination and recertification, ATS helps clients maintain compliance by setting a regular inspection schedule to assess the continued health and performance of these fall protection systems.
Finally, our PEs report any indications of wear or other damage in their findings — recommending appropriate maintenance and repair steps to ensure clients’ fall protection system(s) continue to protect at-heights workers.
About ATS
Since our founding in 1967, Applied Technical Services has served clients in the commercial real estate and industrial sectors with our consulting engineering capabilities. In the following decades, our company grew immensely, from humble beginnings as three engineers working alongside local businesses to a multidisciplinary services provider that employs over 1,000 specialists from a wide variety of fields to answer the needs of clients from around the world.
Quality Management
We maintain several customer service protocols to ensure our clients enjoy the best possible experience working with us, thus giving them a reason to seek our services again in the future. Those policies include:
- Guaranteeing accurate, detailed, clear reporting in a shorter turnaround window to help clients make timely and informed decisions
- Authorizing our customer service agents to answer client outreach and connect them to the most relevant staff member
- Ensuring our subject matter experts are accessible when clients need clarification on either the status or results of the services they requested
Contact Us
Every elevated work environment requires a fall protection solution to minimize risk to site owners, property managers, and vendors. If your company needs the services of fall protection experts, call +1 (888) 287-5227 or click here to receive a free quote.
