Fall Protection Awareness Online Course

FALL PROTECTION AWARENESS COURSE OVERVIEW

This online Fall Protection Awareness course is designed to provide you with the knowledge to help minimize fall hazards and protect yourself and others from serious injury.

Upon successful completion, you should be knowledgeable in:

Importance of fall protection
Fall protection systems and components
Fall protection calculations
Fall protection planning and procedures
Alberta legislation was used extensively in the development of this course as Alberta has some of the most rigorous legislative standards in Canada. CSA, ANSI, CEN, and industry standards were also used. This course focuses on building awareness for workers in the field.

FALL PROTECTION AWARENESS ONLINE COURSE TOPICS

Module 1: Importance of Fall Protection

Statistics
Employer and worker responsibilities

Module 2: Fall Protection System Components

Full body harnesses
- Pre-use inspections
- Donning and doffing a harness
Engineered and non-engineered anchors
- Pre-use inspections
Connecting components
- Carabiners and snap hooks
- Pre-use inspections
Life safety ropes
- Pre-use inspections
- Hazards and cautions
Fall arresters
- Types
- Pre-use inspections
- Hazards and cautions
Horizontal lifelines
- Hazards and cautions
Energy absorbers
- Types
- Hazards and cautions
Lanyards
- Classes
- Pre-use inspections
- Hazards and cautions
Self-retracting devices
- Types
- Pre-use inspections
- Hazards and cautions

Module 3: Fall Protection Systems

Personal and collective fall arrest systems
- Hazards and cautions
- Personnel safety net pre-use inspections
Personal travel restraint systems
- Hazards and cautions
- Control zones
  - Pre-use inspections
  - Hazards and cautions

Module 4: Fall Protection Calculations

Arresting force
Calculations
- Free fall distance
- Clearance required
  - Clearance required from a platform
  - Clearance required from an anchor
  - Clearance required from a D-ring

Module 5: Fall Protection Planning and Procedures

Fall protection plans
- Hazard control
- Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Rescue and escape planning
- Emergency preparedness and response
- Self-rescue hazards and cautions

FALL PROTECTION AWARENESS ONLINE COURSE DURATION:

Approximately 1.5 hours

FALL PROTECTION AWARENESS ASSESSMENT:

Testing conducted in this online Fall Protection course is designed to reinforce the information presented. A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. Users are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved on the first attempt. Print materials that further reinforce the information in this course can be accessed online.