APPLICATIONS
		Access Platforms, Stairs, & Gangways
		Roof Top Fall Protection
		Guardrails
		Catwalks
		Crane Rail
		Confined Space & Rescue
		Horizontal Lifelines
		Vertical Lifelines & Ladders
		Personal Protective Equipment
	INDUSTRY
		Truck Fleet
		Steel & Foundry
		Machine Guard
		General Industry
		Municipalities
		Oil – Gas – Petrochemical
		Construction
		Aircraft Hangars
		Rail Car
	PRODUCTS
		Uni-Track
		Single Point Anchors
		Uni-Grab / Uni-Ridge
		Swing Gates
		Roof Hatch System

Truck & Trailer Fall Protection

From truck scale stations to multi-bay trailer terminal operations, companies that ship via truck have their own requirements for fall protection. Your responsibility as a safety director is to provide a safe means of access to the tankers, trailers, and trucks.

Your first step - establishing a specific fall protection policy for those who load those tank trucks and trailers.

Truck and trailer fall hazards can be similar between facilities; however, your fall hazards are unique to your facility.

DFP’s Quick Safe™ system automatically tarps a load on a flat-bed trailer.

Partnering with the right team of fall protection specialists can eliminate job-related trailer and tanker climbing falls that result in serious injury or death. But how do you pick the right team? If you ask any of the following types of questions, consider a partnership with Diversified Fall Protection to assess the safety of your workers and facility.

• + Temporary ladders to access flatbed trailers have worked, but could permanent ladders or loading platforms above trailer bays increase safety?
• + What is the difference between a tethered horizontal lifeline and personal fall protection harness?
• + Do my workers need different personal protective equipment (PPE) when climbing onto tankers or when loading bulk materials?
• + Is compliance with OSHA and DOT standards good enough - or are there instances where fall protection risks demand going beyond the letter of the law?
• + OSHA fall protection standards use the terms "competent person" and "qualified person" when designating responsibility for different aspects of a safe, fall protected working environment, but what is the difference between these designations?

In the absence of a specific OSHA or NIOSH requirement, you should establish policy for use of fall protection equipment in accordance with your company's safety department and insurance company requirements.

Truck drivers or other workers can be killed or seriously injured after falling as little as four feet from a flatbed trailer. Tarping loads on flatbed trailers represents a consistent hazard point.

Some examples of situations requiring fall protection for workers:

• + When workers climb on top of a loaded trailer to spread a protective tarp over the load.
• + When outside trucking firms are exposed to fall hazards from a load on your property.
• + Guard rails, elevated work platforms and personal fall protection equipment provide a safety factor at bulk tank loading site when high air pressure is used to purge a tank truck
• + Flatbed trailers covered with tarps can hide uneven load surfaces - especially in situations with variable shaped loads

Truck Tarping Equipment

DFP also manufactures automated tarping equipment that allows drivers to tarp their loads without ever leaving the ground. Eliminate the risk of falling from uneven loads and the strain of dragging heavy tarps the length of your flatbed trailer. Our truck automated tarping equipment not only provides a safer work-place, it is also faster than tarping by hand.

To view a video demonstrating DFP’s site-specific, automated trailer tarping equipment, click here.

Automated truck tarping system eliminates fall risks while securing loads.

OSHA compliant rigid beam trolley for fall arrest with stairs, access platform, and gangway.

Dual trolley rigid beam system for fall arrest, with stairs, access platform, and gangway.

Single Source Turnkey Responsibility

You receive single source responsibility for the design, engineering, fabrication, installation, training and certification of permanent and temporary fall arrest and fall protection equipment.

Fall Protection / Fall Prevention Training Programs

Glossary

FAQs

OSHA Fall Protection Compliance