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Falling from Heights Critical Control Verification

by Gerald Visagie, from the Community

Ensure fatal risk controls are in place before any work at height. This checklist guides teams through risk assessment, permits, PPE, tethering, exclusion zones, fall protection selection and inspection, anchor strength, dual connections, platform and ladder safety, weather checks, and emergency response planning. Use it to verify training, calculate clearance distances, and confirm rescue plans are communicated and ready.

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Critical Control Verification: Falling from Heights
Use this fatal risk critical control verification checklist to manage working at heights hazards. Confirm a completed risk assessment and permits, secure work areas with barricades and signage, and ensure tools are tethered. Verify fall protection systems, including training, inspections, correct harness and lanyard selection, adequate anchor strength, and calculated clearance distances. Check work platforms, aerial lifts, and ladders for tags, inspections, guardrails, and stability; ensure weather and terrain are suitable. Establish emergency and rescue plans, communication, and sign-off to document compliance.
by Gerald Visagie, from the Community
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Working at Heights Safety Checklist
This working at heights checklist helps teams assess fall protection controls and site safety. It covers tie-off policies, anchor points, free‑fall distances, lifelines, quarterly and pre‑use equipment inspections, exclusion zones, floor and stair openings, and protection from falling objects. It also includes checks for rescue planning and communication, elevated work platforms, ladder selection and use, and scaffold erection and tagging. Use it to standardize audits, verify compliance, and reduce risk during tasks at height, including transport unloading and access at height.
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Fatal Risk Critical Control Verification Checklist
This mining checklist helps verify critical controls for fatal risks before and during high risk work. It guides teams through controls for stored energy, working at heights, lifting operations, blasting and explosives, hazardous chemicals, confined space, mobile equipment, fall of ground, rotating equipment, and fire. Prompts include LOTOTO, guards and barriers, rescue plans, permits, equipment inspection and certification, exclusion zones, traffic management, ventilation, detection and alarm systems, and emergency preparedness. Use it to pause work when controls are not effective, document verification, and ensure competent reassessment where needed.
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Work at Heights Critical Control Checklist
Use this work at heights critical control checklist to manage fall prevention, temporary access and scaffolding, height access equipment, dropped object controls, ladder safety, and emergency rescue planning. Verify training and permits, inspect harnesses and anchor points, confirm exclusion zones and tool lanyards, and set weather stops. Ensure scaffolds are licensed, tagged, braced, and stable, and EWPs have pre starts completed. Support compliance and safer field operations.
by Kel Peterson, from the Community
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Critical Control Verification: Falling from Heights

Use this fatal risk critical control verification checklist to manage working at heights hazards. Confirm a completed risk assessment and permits, secure work areas with barricades and signage, and ensure tools are tethered. Verify fall protection systems, including training, inspections, correct harness and lanyard selection, adequate anchor strength, and calculated clearance distances. Check work platforms, aerial lifts, and ladders for tags, inspections, guardrails, and stability; ensure weather and terrain are suitable. Establish emergency and rescue plans, communication, and sign-off to document compliance.

by Gerald Visagie, from the Community

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Working at Heights Safety Checklist

This working at heights checklist helps teams assess fall protection controls and site safety. It covers tie-off policies, anchor points, free‑fall distances, lifelines, quarterly and pre‑use equipment inspections, exclusion zones, floor and stair openings, and protection from falling objects. It also includes checks for rescue planning and communication, elevated work platforms, ladder selection and use, and scaffold erection and tagging. Use it to standardize audits, verify compliance, and reduce risk during tasks at height, including transport unloading and access at height.

by Surmont 2 HSE, from the Community

20+

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Fatal Risk Critical Control Verification Checklist

This mining checklist helps verify critical controls for fatal risks before and during high risk work. It guides teams through controls for stored energy, working at heights, lifting operations, blasting and explosives, hazardous chemicals, confined space, mobile equipment, fall of ground, rotating equipment, and fire. Prompts include LOTOTO, guards and barriers, rescue plans, permits, equipment inspection and certification, exclusion zones, traffic management, ventilation, detection and alarm systems, and emergency preparedness. Use it to pause work when controls are not effective, document verification, and ensure competent reassessment where needed.

by Gerald Visagie, from the Community

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Work at Heights Critical Control Checklist

Use this work at heights critical control checklist to manage fall prevention, temporary access and scaffolding, height access equipment, dropped object controls, ladder safety, and emergency rescue planning. Verify training and permits, inspect harnesses and anchor points, confirm exclusion zones and tool lanyards, and set weather stops. Ensure scaffolds are licensed, tagged, braced, and stable, and EWPs have pre starts completed. Support compliance and safer field operations.

by Kel Peterson, from the Community

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Falling from Heights Critical Control Verification

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