Hi iI'm Greg Brown. I'm David Ivey and
this is Dynamic Discussions. This is
another installment in a weekly video
series talking about fall protection
equipment, safety gear,
and how you should use it. We also
have Kaylee Lang with our marketing department
with this week's topic.
The topic for this week is used fall
protection equipment and should you use
it.
Okay believe it or not
some people make a practice of this.
There are different ways you could
acquire used fall protection equipment
the one that I think of
right off the top of my head would be if
you have like a community gear locker
at your job site or something like
that where
maybe at the end of the day you throw
your gear in there and you just grab
whatever size that you can find for the
next day.
We leave that up to the company to
decide if that's a good practice or not.
Personally I think you should probably
have your own and inspect your own, but
there are opportunities to share gear
and I guess if it passes inspection
you're okay.
Yeah, so you know personally when you
throw that gear in that
that bucket there, or in a locker, or in a
bed of a truck
a lot of times somebody just grabs it
and throws it on, you know they're not
going through the proper inspection
process
or making sure it fits properly. So I
always recommend
you know having your personal, you
know it's John's harness, this is his, he
puts it
on every single day. Yeah and there's
different things that you can do
I would say that's a recipe for
definitely more competent person
inspections, which is your annual
inspection or you know your more
thorough inspection
rather than your pre-use. I've seen fall
protection gear on sale on like facebook
marketplace,
we also see a lot of it for sale on
these television shows, or on where
people
will buy like amazon returns, or
something like that
and there'll be some fall protection
equipment in there. I think it's really
smart to be extremely careful
with stuff like that, things that may
look brand new could possibly be used and
a lot of times you don't know the life
of that piece of equipment before it got
to you.
So it's a good idea to be very careful I
would say anytime that you're using a
piece of equipment
and somebody else has used it previously.
Until you're not the one using it
anymore
you should definitely have a competent
person inspection performed
on that piece of equipment and also be
very careful
and pay really close attention.
 
 
