Are you Trained in Fall Protection & Do you Have the Necessary Protection?

All employers must provide training that teaches employees fall prevention and how to be aware of fall hazards. It is the employers responsibility to provide its employees with all the appropriate fall protection that is required to complete their job.

According to OSHA, for the state of Arizona; employers will receive $25,000 penalty for each employee that suffers serious injuries and/or deaths.  

Other states have similar guidelines/expectation if not even stricter. Take California for instance; 

"A roofing contractor, owner of 101 Roofing, pled guilty to 52 felony violations. The charges included involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of a worker. The worker was not wearing fall restraints and fell four stories to his death. The contractor was also charged with violating an occupational safety standard at a workplace resulting in the death of an employee.

Roofing employees were not provided with fall protection equipment and were not trained in use of equipment, despite the height and pitch of the roof. Normal fall protection consisted of ropes tied around the employee's waist but these were untied when moving from one area to another or when climbing a scaffold without the help of a ladder.

The contractor was held on $1 million bail. The contractor will be sentenced to a three-year state prison term and will surrender his contractor's license and discontinue business operation. Three codefendants are set for further proceedings in the same courtroom." reference