It has been over a year since the adoption of the ANSI/ISEA 121-2018 Standard for Dropped Object Prevention Solutions. The ANSI/ISEA 121-2018 standard “establishes minimum design, performance, testing ...

Those tools pose an additional danger to those below, as accidents happen when they are dropped. In 2017, 278 fatalities occurred from being “struck by falling objects” according to the Bureau of ...

A news article about fatality related to a dropped tape measure caused the author to ponder the issue surrounding dropped objects, which is one of the top 10 causes ...

For all objects at height – including humans – the focus always should be on preventing things from falling rather than on catching objects, or on limiting the damage after they fall. Dropped objects ...