Here are a couple of tips for industrial facility owners who'll be getting height safety products for their premises.

They should ensure the safety helmets they buy are vented and come in multiple sizes

It's best for industrial facility owners to get a selection of safety helmets that are vented and that come in several sizes. Vents in a safety helmet are important for two reasons. Firstly, they make this type of helmet more comfortable for a person to wear, as their head will be less likely to overheat and sweat when they're working. This, in turn, should reduce the chances of an employee removing their helmet to cool off when they're working at a height and it's unsafe to do this.

Secondly, a ventilated safety helmet that minimises severe perspiration will also reduce the chances of an employee who's in an elevated position experiencing blurred vision due to the sweat from their head falling into their eyes. This is vital. If a person's vision is compromised for even a few moments when they're working at a height, it could endanger them and lead to a fall.

These safety helmets should be ordered in multiple sizes. Whilst most safety helmets are adjustable to a certain degree, they might not suit employees with particularly large or small heads. If, for example, an employee's safety helmet is too large for them and slides around their head even when the strap is adjusted to its tightest setting, it won't provide them with enough protection if they fall from a height whilst wearing it.

They should instruct their employees to check the stability of any guardrail they need to attach their lanyard and harness to

It's essential for industrial facility owners to not only train their staff to inspect their height safety products before each and every use of them but to also instruct them to check the stability of any guardrail they need to attach their lanyard and harness to. '

It's a common myth that if a person is wearing a high-quality harness and lanyard and has secured it to, for example, a scissor lift's guard rail, that their safety gear will definitely prevent them from falling to the ground. If the guard rail to which this high-quality safety gear is attached has become unstable since the access equipment's most recent inspection, it might not be able to support the weight of the person who falls from the platform whilst their lanyard and harness are connecting them to this rail. In this situation, the rail could break and could go falling to the ground, along with the person who stumbled and fell.

Given this, anyone who'll be using these height safety items should exercise caution and ensure that any access equipment rail they attach it to is stable.