Posted By golam
One of my clients hse personnel wants us to maintain a daily full body harness visual inspection recorded and submit daily we have around 300 manpower. is this practicable and is there any requirement by any regulation or standard.

Posted By Philip McAleenan
Golam,

train the users to carry out the daily visual inspection on their own harnesses.

Any harness and lanyard that has had stress applied through arresting a fall should not be re-used but instead returned to the manufacturer with as much details of the incident as you are able to provide. This will allow them to carry out tests to determine the effects on the harness and improve future product.

Contact me offline if you want to discuss this further,

regards Philip

Posted By Bob Youel
FBH's are PPE and as such should be managed and this includes checking the kit for damage etc

we have 1000's of staff with 10s of pieces of kit to each person and have no probs in managing all the kit that each person has noting that the one and only time your kit may be tested is the one and only time that it may fail and if you have no records of maintenance / user checking you are up the creek without a paddle

If your staff cannot check their kit themselves they should not be using it

We have a single sheet of paper which can last a month and more for each bit of kit and as its used its checked and the staff sign that it is fit for purpose - Thereafter the paper is scanned into the computer and used again and again with different coloured inks. Thus the process moves on [I have simplified what we do but that is the basic principal!]

Posted By Francis E S Hone
Golem its agood idea to check this kit and keep records. If the client wants it give it to him or he may use someone-else for the job the client gets what he wants he paying the money.
Regards
Frank