Fall Protection Inspection Series: How to Inspect Your Harness and Removal Criteria

Your fall protection equipment keeps you safe, but only if it is in the proper working condition. If your harness fails the results could be catastrophic. In this series we show you how to inspect your fall protection gear. In this video we start with your harness and what removal criteria looks like. Inspecting your harness before each use can prevent death, injury, or in the very least an OSHA citation.
Come back for the next episode of the Fall Protection Inspection Series where we show you removal criteria for SRLs and Lanyards.
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In this video
0:00 - Intro
1:33 - How often should you inspect your harness?
3:05 - Who should you look to for harness inspection standards and criteria?
3:21 - How to perform a harness inspection - removal criteria
4:06 - What do I need to see on the harness ID tag?
4:43 - How do you inspect a harness?
7:04 - Inspecting a harness removed from service
9:50 - What do harness removal examples look like?
12:23 - An important note about inspecting a harness
12:53 - How to get your FREE harness inspection inforgraphic
13:46 - If this was useful, please like and subscribe!

[@mugishokacheranga3229]

HEY, BEN thank you for that amazing harness inspection lesson, I am an HSE apprentice and look forward to taking formal face to face classes in the any of EAST AFRICAN COUNTRIES. I wonder if you have something related this training and in the stated location that I may join for my capacity building, please?

[@LiftingandRigging]

Thanks for watching! I would like to refer you to our partner ITI. They may not offer an in person training in E. Africa, but their may be a virtual option for you. You can contact them and see if there is a good fit option. www.iti.com/

[@rubywalker5137]

first off, great video. very informative. the only question I have is: the person said to not write your name on the harness. How will you and others identify that the harness is yours?

[@LiftingandRigging]

I would suggest adding a tag. Keeping your harness in your locker so it is not mixed with others is another way. Some harnesses also allow for electronic tagging through Bluetooth. Unfortunately writing with marker on the actual synthetic material is not allowed. There may be other areas that do can be written on depending on the harness.

[@user-ew9kn6ru4p]

First You need to check the impact indicator to make sure it hasn’t gone through an incident/ fall

[@LiftingandRigging]

Great tip!