NSC Dropped Object Session Set for Sept. 26
The Indianapolis presentation will focus on prevention best practices and provide an overview of a new industry initiative in development by ISEA and the Dropped Objects Solutions Committee that seeks to standardize solutions.
ISEA President Charles D. Johnson two others will be presenting a Learning Lab session on Sept. 26 at the 2017 National Safety Congress & Expo in Indianapolis on tool tethering and preventing dropped objects from harming workers below.
The other presenters in the session will be ISEA Members Nate Bohmbach, associate product director for Ergodyne and chairman of the ISEA Standards Committee for Dropped Objects Solutions, and Virginia Battles, global vice president of sales for Ty-Flot. The one-hour session in Learning Lab room #5256 on the expo floor is scheduled to start at 11 a.m.
The presentation will focus on prevention best practices and provide an overview of a new industry initiative in development by ISEA and the Dropped Objects Solutions Committee that seeks to standardize solutions available to protect workers from objects falling from heights by establishing minimum design, performance, and labeling requirements for solutions actively used by employees in elevated work areas, ISEA reported.