We were working in a manufacturing facility today. Up in a lift. Doing some things that would probably be considered unsafe. Come to find out, the guy walking around with the manager for half the day was an OSHA inspector.
We talked yesterday about closing up a box. We exchanged pleasantries in the morning...no mention of OSHA showing up. We don't think anything will happen, but he could have told us. They had an appointment for this inspection.
FWIW, I was just at a safety training meeting yesterday and it was brought up that OSHA is not allowing 6' lanyards on boom lifts anymore, we have to use retractors from now on.
...we have same policy, but someone had mentioned that a retractable is not suited for use below you head.
A retractable is supposed to be attached above your head, by attaching them to the lifts floor anchorage point, is not above your head. Next time look at the pics on the retractable, they all show pics of it being mounted above the persons head. :001_huh:
They knew about the inspection ahead of time. I would think it would have come up that OSHA was going to be there. Even if it didn't cross their mind ahead of time, someone could have whispered it to us.
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