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You remember the pics you posted showing how you attach your porty to the tree? I wasn't sure what to call it...just named it in honor of its inventor...
OSHA Inspections
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You remember the pics you posted showing how you attach your porty to the tree? I wasn't sure what to call it...just named it in honor of its inventor...
Burnham
Woods walker
Treesmith, I am not immune to the logic of your argument.
What you might consider, however, is that OSHA regulates conditions under which employees are expected to perform their jobs by their employer.
As has been noted, if you don't have any employees, you are exempt. Do what you want, it's your choice. You are not placeing anyone else at risk, as would be the case if you operated a worksite with known hazards and required your workers to do their job there.
And of course, rock climbing is a recreational activity; it's a choice freely taken by those who wish to engage in it, including the risks. If you hire people to work on rock faces, as in manual scaling of highway cut faces to remove loose potential rockfall, you can bet that wiregate carabiners are not legal for your employees.
It's all about providing a safe work environment for those who must work under the conditions set by their employer.
Screwlock carabiners are banned for the very simple reason that failure of that locking mechanism has been directly attributable to specific fatalities, repeatedly. It's not an arbitrary rule made just to piss us off.
What you might consider, however, is that OSHA regulates conditions under which employees are expected to perform their jobs by their employer.
As has been noted, if you don't have any employees, you are exempt. Do what you want, it's your choice. You are not placeing anyone else at risk, as would be the case if you operated a worksite with known hazards and required your workers to do their job there.
And of course, rock climbing is a recreational activity; it's a choice freely taken by those who wish to engage in it, including the risks. If you hire people to work on rock faces, as in manual scaling of highway cut faces to remove loose potential rockfall, you can bet that wiregate carabiners are not legal for your employees.
It's all about providing a safe work environment for those who must work under the conditions set by their employer.
Screwlock carabiners are banned for the very simple reason that failure of that locking mechanism has been directly attributable to specific fatalities, repeatedly. It's not an arbitrary rule made just to piss us off.
Burnham, I appreciate your view and your explanation. What I still cannot understand is how empowering a group of "Inspectors" to go around "inspecting" work sites is going to do to make things safer. When found in violation, they give you a fine. If they took that fine and divvied it up among the workers who were being endangered, I could see it, but they don't. It's just more money in Big Brother's pocket. I think the workers themselves are accountable if they climb on risky equipment or in questionable situations.
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treedude
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My thoughts exactly,i've always said that using your head and common sense will keep you safer than the standards.
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