Workplace safety standards are among some of the most important standards for employers. And ASSE, the American Society of Safety Engineers, is the right place to start when you want to know what’s available. As an authorized distributor of the ASSE standards, Document Center Inc. is pleased to announce that the new ANSI A1264.1 2017 Edition is now available. The standard is titled Safety Requirements for Workplace Walking/Working Surfaces and Their Access; Workplace, Floor, Wall and Roof Openings; Stairs and Guardrail/Handrail Systems.
This particular safety standard focuses in on protecting people in workplace or industrial settings where there’s a danger of either people or objects falling from elevated walking and work surfaces. What kinds of situations might that be? Well, the standard specifically mentions theaters as a location where both stage hands and performers may access certain areas that are high above the stage.
The 40 page standard reviews the various kinds of areas that can present a fall danger in work situations. Formatted like many other ASSE standards, the text of the document is in a left-hand column. Additional information and comments are located in a right-hand one. This means that as you work through the document, you’ll be given clarifying material.
The standard also covers the important ways that such areas need to be designed and maintained. So there is information on now to properly protect floor and roof openings and holes, for example. Other safety concerns the standard addresses include protection of wall openings and holes; open-sided floors, roofs, platforms, runways and ramps; railing systems; stairways, and guardrails/handrails. The document also gives you requirements for inspections and maintenance.
The 2017 Edition is a technical revision of the previous 2007 Edition. The committee also notes that there are 2 new definitions and 4 new illustrations to help clarify text in the standard.
Now you need to get a copy, so head to Document Center Inc.’s webstore at www.document-center.com. Here you can search for and order from our collection of over a million documents. For your convenience, here is a link to the order page for the ANSI A1264.1 paper format standard and to the order page for the ANSI A1264.1 pdf download.
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