If you’ve been looking into OSHA’s revised Walking Working Surfaces Regulations or have heard about the November 19, 2018 implementation of new regulations for permanently mounted ladders, you may still be confused about the height requirements related to the “24-foot rule.”
Your safety engineer or maintenance crew may have questions like these:
“What if the ladder is made up of sections that are less than 24’…do I need fall protection?”
“What if the ladder is only 20′ long, but starts 10′ above ground level? What then?”
Whether an employer must equip a fixed ladder or ladder sections with fall protection depends on the distance a worker on the ladder could fall, not the length of any single section of the ladder.
With the deadline approaching, people have been talking about OSHA’s Revised Walking Working Standards and how those new standards relate to fixed ladders installed after mid-November of 2018.