Safety Harness Lanyard Length. Use energy absorbers if the arresting forces of the lanyard alone can cause injury. Get it as soon as wed, dec 2.
The safety harness lanyard come in many different formats, materials and features so choosing the best one for you may not be as easy as you think. To an untrained worker, having a 6’ lanyard may seem sufficient while working at a height of 10’ or 12’, but they often don’t know, or forget, about the deceleration device. Use energy absorbers if the arresting forces of the lanyard alone can cause injury.
A restraint lanyard is designed to prevent falls by prohibiting the wearer from reaching a hazardous position where a fall might occur.
In short, the manufacturer and only the manufacturer can tell you the weight ranges for your safety harness. No one has the real, tested, and manufactured to specifications on this. To allow for the possibility of an improperly fit harness, a taller than average worker and/or a miscalculation of. When using a six foot lanyard with a safety harness, the employee must be working at a height of eighteen and a half feet to be considered.