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OSHA 1910.28 Fall Protection, in Plain English

OSHA 1910.28 Fall Protection, in Plain English

menu_book What 1910.28 says

Section 1910.28 is the heart of OSHA's walking-working-surfaces fall protection: it requires employers to protect workers from falling off any walking-working surface with an unprotected side or edge 4 feet or more above a lower level, and from falling into holes and openings. It reaches roofs, mezzanines, docks, pits, runways, stairs and ladders alike.

checklist How it's satisfied

Acceptable protection includes guardrail systems, safety-net systems, and personal fall-arrest systems — chosen for the situation — and the duty is continuous wherever the exposure exists. Low-slope roof work has its own distance-based rules (within 6 ft, 6–15 ft, and beyond 15 ft of the edge), and skylights and holes 4 ft or more above a lower level must be protected by a cover, guardrail, travel-restraint or fall-arrest system.

construction How we apply it to your building

We translate §1910.28 into a concrete plan for your building: identify every 4-foot-plus exposure, install the right protection, certify anchors through our PE partner, and document it — one contract from assessment to sign-off.

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