If I know there’s a problem at work, I first should be capable of describing it. Any designated competent person (CP) soon becomes aware of this simple communication requirement. Over the past decade, the international fall-protection industry retroactively developed the suspension trauma (ST) relief strap (R-Strap) as a marketable add-on to their line of full body harnesses (FBH) that help prevent death and illness from a medical condition described as orthostatic intolerance. Every one of the R-straps on the market provide limited post-arrested fall (PAF) relief by reducing some of the physical conditions affecting the femoral veins in both legs. While a reasonable person would agree that any relief is better than none, many employers purchase these devices expecting to prevent their employees from succumbing to ST without any evidence as to their effectiveness in the field.
Once someone has experienced a successfully arrested fall in a Personal Fall Arrest System (PFAS) and is physically bound in a vertical, orthostatic posture by a standard PFAS, that system effectively reverses its life-saving function by:
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