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Posted By Jim-F
we have been asked to include rescue procedures for someone falling into a harness.
i.e. how do we get the poor sod down as quickly as possible before his blood sirculation stops.
anyone know where I can find this info
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Posted By Mark Surtees
You could get some assistance from IRATA, (Industrial Rope Access Training Association), try starting with Lyon Equipment 01539 625493.
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Posted By Richard Hinckley
The issue of Rescue from a Fall with a user in a safety harness has been very closely looked at over the past couple of years and has indeed prompted a study into Post Fall Suspension Trauma (it's very interesting reading).
The key question is whether it is appropriate for the casualty to be raised back to the fall position ie: from a access gantry or scaffold or whether the casualty will be required to be lowered to a safe area.
There are also a number of bespoke products for both purposes and also some very simple devices that can be used to increase circulaltion whilst the casualty is in suspension (assuming concious).
It is also however a requirement that this equipment is required to be used in a snatch situation and rescuers are suitably trained in its safe use.
Just to clarify the point on Rope Access activities, Technicians can remain in suspension for long periods of time as they are wearing purpose designed "Work Positioning Harnesses" and assosciated equipment rather than Fall Arrest Harnesses.
If anyone would like any further information on this equipment or indeed a copy of the report, please post here or email me at richard@totalaccess.co.uk
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Posted By David AB Thomas
Guidance is available in BS 8437: 2005 (published recently), Code of practice for selection, use and maintenance of personal fall protection systems and equipment for use in the workplace.
In particular, Clause 11.4, Care of individuals requiring rescue. The survival of an injured person after an accident often depends on the speed of rescue and on the care given to them during and after rescue. This applies equally to a person who is left suspended after an incident, e.g. after a fall from a height, whether or not they have suffered injuries. The suspended phase of an incident can be the most dangerous part of it, particularly for a person who is motionless (for example, because they are badly injured or unconscious), owing to the effects of suspension trauma, which can be life threatening)
Also, Annex D, Suspension trauma (D.1). Suspension trauma is a condition in which a person suspended in a harness can experience pallor, cold sweats, nausea, ringing in the ears, blurred vision, dizziness, feeling faint, loss of consciousness and eventually death. The condition appears mainly to affect persons who are suspended in a harness without moving, for example, when unconscious.
Further information on suspension trauma is given in the HSE publication Harness suspension: review
and evaluation of existing information, CRR 451. HSE Books 2002, http://www.hse.gov.uk/re...rr_htm/2002/crr02451.htm
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