PPE

A safety harness is designed to suspend an individual whose fall has been successfully arrested ...

The term “rope-up protection” is used to describe a special type of fall arrest system (designed to secure employees) using personal fall protection equipment (PSAgA) ...

Lanyard energy absorbers are the most common type of energy absorber around. They convert the kinetic energy generated by a fall ...

A self-retracting lifeline is an extendable connecting device equipped with an automatic locking function and an automatic tensioning and retraction mechanism ...

Guided type fall arresters with a flexible anchor line are standard components in a typical personal protective equipment kit (PPE) ...

The European PPE Directive 89/656/EEC was translated into German law in the PPE Usage Regulation (“PSA-Benutzungsverordnung = PSA-BV”). This Regulation governs both the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) ...

PPE Directive 89/686/EEC "not only governs the conditions for placing personal protective equipment (PPE) on the market [...] but also the basic safety requirements ...

PPE specialists are individuals that acquire special knowledge in the area of personal fall protection equipment in a training measure carried out in accordance with DGUV Principle 312-906 (formerly BGG 906) ...

A connector is used to connect the person to be secured up to an anchorage device: One end is connected to the anchorage point or lifeline system and the other is attached to the safety harness worn be the user ...

According to EN 362 , a connector element is a single component which is used to connect up the other components in a fall protection system. To be able to fulfil this function, it ...