Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 8, § 3416 - Fall Protection
(a) On all outdoor advertising structure
platforms, over 7- ½ feet above ground or other surface, which are not
provided with standard guardrails, employees shall be provided with and
required to use approved personal fall protection, and where employees' work
requires horizontal movement at such heights, a horizontal safety line shall be
provided. When the employee's harness lanyard is secured to the special purpose
poster ladder, a horizontal safety line need not be provided.
(b) The horizontal safety line shall be
designed under the supervision of a professional engineer currently registered
in the State of California and installed as part of a complete personal fall
protection system, with a safety factor of at least two.
(c) Outdoor advertising structures, where
employees post billboards while working from special purpose poster ladders,
shall be provided with one of the following:
(1) A horizontal safety line so located on
the billboard that employees can attach their fall arrest harness' lanyard when
working from the upper half of the ladder, or
(2) A ¼ -inch improved plow steel
cable 19 inches in length with 4-inch swaged loops on each end. The steel cable
shall be looped through the special purpose hooked ladder with the lanyard's
snaphook attached to both loops of the cable. Other locking connectors of
equivalent strength, such as caribiners, may be used in lieu of the ¼
-inch improved plow steel cable, or
(3) A special purpose poster ladder equipped
with anchor point(s).
(d)
Lanyards shall include a shock absorber and shall not exceed 6 feet in total
length.
EXCEPTION: Self-retracting lifelines used in accordance with this Article.
(e)
Self-retracting lifelines may be used in conjunction with special purpose Type
1 industrial heavy-duty, Type 1A industrial extra heavy-duty ladders, Type 1AA
special duty ladders or where attached to an approved anchorage.
(f) Personal fall protection system anchorage
shall meet the strength requirements specified in Article 24 of the
Construction Safety Orders.
Notes
2. Amendment filed 10-1-2008; operative 10-31-2008 (Register 2008, No. 40).
3. Editorial correction of subsection (c)(2) (Register 2012, No. 7).
Note: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.
2. Amendment filed 10-1-2008; operative 10-31-2008 (Register 2008, No. 40).
3. Editorial correction of subsection (c)(2) (Register 2012, No. 7).
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