Optimization on Personal Fall Arrest Systems. Experimental Dynamic Studies on Lanyard Prototypes

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Título: Optimization on Personal Fall Arrest Systems. Experimental Dynamic Studies on Lanyard Prototypes
Autor/es: Pomares Torres, Juan Carlos | Carrión Jackson, Elena | González Sánchez, Antonio | Saez, Pedro Ignacio
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: Grupo de Ensayo, Simulación y Modelización de Estructuras (GRESMES)
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil
Palabras clave: Personal protective equipment | Fall arrest systems | Dynamic performance test | Lanyard | Low stretch kernmantle and dynamic rope | Webbing
Área/s de conocimiento: Mecánica de Medios Continuos y Teoría de Estructuras
Fecha de publicación: 10-feb-2020
Editor: MDPI
Cita bibliográfica: Pomares JC, Carrión EÁ, González A, Saez PI. Optimization on Personal Fall Arrest Systems. Experimental Dynamic Studies on Lanyard Prototypes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(3):1107. doi:10.3390/ijerph17031107
Resumen: Tens of thousands of fall-from-height accidents take place at construction sites every year. These types of accidents range from minor to fatal, causing a significant financial burden to enterprises, personal and family traumatic experiences, high medical costs, as well as hard compensation claim settlements. It makes sense then, that some sort of effective personal protective equipment (PPE) be devised to stop these types of accidents from happening. This article aims to explain how PPE can be used to minimize personal injury and the costs implied. The main contribution of this study is that the prototypes made with dynamic ropes and terminals knotted—without an energy absorber—could safely retain falls. Results show that standards EN 354 and EN 364 need to incorporate dynamic test requirements, for the reason that a high loading rate significantly reduces the resistance in static tests that manufacturing companies claim they have. Surprisingly, more than 90 percent of work at heights use PPE without any absorber. Finally, this study calls for the need to accurately determine the dynamic response of PPE in order to further advance in improvements of these fall arrest systems with no energy absorber.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/102630
ISSN: 1661-7827 (Print) | 1660-4601 (Online)
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17031107
Idioma: eng
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Derechos: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Versión del editor: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17031107
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