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Posted By Kevin D Forbes
One of our sites is requesting Guidance for selecting suitable anchor points when working at height. Has anyone covered this before and have a procedure they would be willing to share? Thanks in advance
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Posted By CFT
Kevin
With respect, you are going to have to give a lot more information for people to assist you. What, Who, Why, Where, for instance.
CFT
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Posted By Kevin D Forbes
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The request has came from a OIM on 1 of our Offshore Platforms. Harnesses are used offshore quite a bit for lots of different tasks. Obv the usual risk assessment process etc is in place but the question has been raised about suitable anchor points. for example is it suitable to hook onto pipe work, hand rails, steel beams, tops of containers etc.
Is there any Standard an anchor point has to conform to?
Hope this helps
Kev
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Posted By Kevin D Forbes My main email is down. If anyone wishes to contact me direct please send to kevspad@hotmail.com
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Posted By Konstanty Budkiewicz
The following standard may help you. BS 8437:2005 Code of practice for selection, use and maintenance of personal fall protection systems and equipment for use in the workplace.
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Posted By peter gotch
Kevin.
Will depend, amongst other things on whether equipment being used for person positioning or fall arrest - Guard-rail probably OK in first situation, probably not in fall arrest - massive increase in potential loadings.
Regards, Peter
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Posted By Kevin D Forbes
Peter
Harness is always used as last resort or in conjuntion with other collective fall protection. Also used for fall arrest.
just wondering what is a secure anchor point and how it is determined as such?
It seems this is a bit of a grey area.
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Posted By CFT
Thanks Kevin, it makes life much simpler with a bit more information.
BS EN 795 1997 is pretty much the bible in terms of the eye bolts per se and BS 7883 2005 supports. We are of course talking about specific and dedicated anchor points which should if memory serves display the person rating and marked up as restraint or arrest, the latter of course placing much more strain on the AP and is usually measured in kN's of resistance, the force load testing is/was conducted at 5 or 6 kN's (sorry I cant remember specifically).
This probably doesn't help you a great deal in terms of what is and what is not suitable for the task or purpose; with arrest one of the purposes of a collapsing stanchion is to reduce the pressure of resistance on the person when falling in conjunction with their SA lanyard, you would loose that benefit with a fully fixed AP.
Sorry can't help more.
good luck
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Posted By Richard Hinckley
CFT - just to confirm the anchor points should be tested to 6kN (the previous test requirements was 5kN).
To add to the original thread.....
A word that is often used is an "unquestionably reliable" anchor point if a bespoke tested anchor is not available, sometimes this judgement is obvious call - other times not so obvious and problems do unfortunately arise as a result of this.
Best advice install bespoke anchors and ensure that they are tested (and clearly identified as such) remembering anchors should not be shared.
Richard
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Posted By CFT
Richard
Many thanks for confirming that particular issue on the loadings. I am grateful.
Charley
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Posted By paul sykes
kevin,
when i was working on the ships which again is height above water not that you would go 150ft up without a harness
the only stipulation we had to do is
safety person
tested in date harness
permit to work
managers signature
hardhat lanyards etc
the points you used were up to yourself
as to test a whole superstructure would be
inpracticle and cost a fortune but you always tied on to some hard point above your working platform and that would hold you if the worst happened
it is even impractacle putting safety lugs all over as on the ships there are so many arials funnels lights etc etc the whole upperdeck would be a welding mess
i assume it is the same on an oilrig
paul
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Posted By David AB Thomas
You might also find it useful to refer to BS 7883:2005, Code of practice for the design, selection, installation, use and maintenance of anchor devices conforming to BS EN 795
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