Products and services can be provided from risk identification phase to management & monitoring. JTS can either provide you with a turn-key project to implement Fall Protection Best Practices and Compliance from scratch to completion or only improve on any areas of concern, as illustrated in the diagram below:
Fall Protection Compliance Gap Analysis™
- Site surveys, interviews, task observations, inspections and tests against relevant protocols, such as international standards, legal compliance, international best practices and company SOP’s & policies.
- Revision of existing baseline risk assessment and fall protection procedure / plan.
- Technical assessment of fall protection equipment (Fixed Anchors and Safety Lines in use, PPE and Rescue / Access Equipment).
- Technical assessment of collective controls (Guardrails, Barriers, Gates, etc).
- Task observations to assess competence of persons working at heights, and to test relevance of training provided.
- Assessment of effectiveness of management influencing working at heights.
- Assessment and testing of working at heights policies for relevance and technical correctness.
- Detailed reports are provided with gaps and suggestions for compliance.
Risk Assessment
- Issue based.
- All individual risk activities where working at heights are performed.
- Pre- and post mitigated.
- Suggested controls designed and engineered.
Fall Protection Plan
- Risk activity specific or on corporate scale.
- Specifications and standards of engineering controls.
- Step-by-step safe working procedures.
- Illustrations and photographs.
- Administrative and general controls (competence, medical, inspections, etc.)
- Reference to relevant legislation.
Needs Analysis
- Quantity Survey & Cost Analysis.
- Survey, recording and documentation of cost matrix with the descriptions, quantities and estimated costs of all controls (training, equipment and fixed systems).
- Used for budgeting and procurement benchmarking.
Training
- Design training course syllabus and presentation material.
- Train trainers and personnel in equipment and procedures in Fall Protection Plan.
Implementation Project
- Design, manufacturing, sourcing and procurement services.
- Effective oversight of the implementation process concerning quality, specification and standards.
- Certification validity back-grounds checks.
Planned Task Observations
A mini internal audit to measure the behaviour and competence of personnel and contractors working at heights. The report can be used for improvement strategies, refresher training or review of controls.
Other services:
- Legal and Corporate Compliance Audits.
- Contractor Audits (for on-site compliance).
- Incident Investigations & Root Cause Analysis.
- Reviews and Monitoring.
- Consultations.
- Public Speaking, Presentations and Workshops.
- Establishment of Scope of Work.
- Design and Engineering of Fixed Guardrails, Walkways, Anchors, Safety Lines, Cat Ladders & Building / Ship Architecture for Fall Protection Compliance.
- Design and Engineering of PPE.
- Legal Specialist Witness Services (criminal or civil liability claims).
John T Smit (JTS) is a professional Height Safety & Confined Space Entry risk specialist and fall protection planner with over >25 years active experience in providing construction, mining, industrial, offshore, transport, electricity and facilities managers with turn-key management and engineering solutions to protect personnel and contractors from the consequences of working at heights.
Risk activities are individually assessed and mitigated to apply the most effective, reasonable and practicable administrative and engineering controls, to comply with legislation and international best practices, specifications and standards.
Risk activity areas include but are not limited to:
- Ceilings.
- Conveyor Belts.
- Fragile Surfaces and Roofs.
- Ladders (portable and fixed).
- Low Heights (manufacturing equipment, factory assembly lines, robots and machines, sub-station auxiliary equipment, containers, low roofs, vessels, ball mills, offshore installations, etc.).
- Mine Shafts, Tips, Throats and Ore Passes.
- Mobile Elevated Work Platforms.
- Overhead Pipe Racks and Equipment.
- Overhead Cranes and Gantries.
- Roofing (inspections, cleaning, repairs, removal, sheeting and cladding).
- Scaffolding, Towers and Pylons.
- Trenches, Excavations and Pits.
- Unprotected Edges.
- Vehicles (tankers, flatbeds, earth moving, drilling, mining, delivery, refrigerated, railways rolling stock, etc.).
- Vertical Confined Spaces and Manholes.
