Learning how to minimize the risk of potentially dangerous or fatal fall hazards allows organizations to take a proactive approach to worker safety. In November 2007, the American National Standards ...

A partnership of standards, ANSI/ASSE Z359-2007 Fall Arrest Code, which takes effect this month, provides general industry with knowledgeable, practical norms and guidelines essential to a proactive ...

Falls remain the number one killer of workers in the construction industry and the number two killer of workers in private industry, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. One would think, given ...

A new voluntary standard for preventing falls at construction sites will catch “a lot of corporate safety people unaware,” according to the chairman of a committee that’s reviewing the standard.

WATERTOWN, S.D.—The National Association of Tower Erectors is sharing the news that the American Nation Standards Institute/the American Society of Safety Engineers (ANSI/ASSE) has published two new ...

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved two American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) standards addressing fall protection - the new ANSI/ASSE Z359.14-2012, Safety ...

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved two American Society of Safety Engineers' (ASSE) standards addressing fall protection. The new Z359.14 standard establishes requirements ...