Steel Erecting is one of the most dangerous trades in the construction industry. The very nature of the work inherently puts the steel worker at daily risk of serious injury or death due to falls or other loss of balance incidents. The US Dept of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Agency has been and continues to work proactively and aggressively with the steel erection industry to reduce such statistics.
In response to a worker’s danger, fall protection requirements have proliferated. While fall protection measures have improved steelworker safety, the myriad demands have brought corresponding declines in productivity and increases in cost to the structural steel trade. These costs have crept steadily higher as more and more work is performed from costly and slow aerial lift equipment and as fall protection tie-off requirements have increasingly limited productivity by rendering the worker unable to freely maneuver and execute his work.
