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Guide to Working at Height in Texas Heat A Texas summer adds a hazard to height work that most safety literature written for mild climates never addresses. A worker standing on a ladder or a scaffold platform in direct sun in August is doing physical work in conditions that raise heart rate, reduce grip strength and slow reaction time, and every one of those changes the margin on a piece of equipment that assumes a fully capable operator. Heat on a roof or a lift is not a wellness issue. It is …

Guide to Tool Lanyards and Tethering at Height Crews talk about fall protection constantly and almost never about what is in the worker's hands. A hammer off a third lift of scaffolding arrives at ground level fast enough to kill someone, and the person who dropped it usually never sees where it lands. Tethering is the least expensive safety work on a site and the most consistently skipped, because it costs a few seconds on every single task. The Drop Problem Anything dropped from height accele …