[CQ-Contest] Tower safety

[Edward Sawyer]

I think that issue is that the discussion Jim had did not get to the true root cause analysis in all cases.  HE did speak about temporary guying below the work on  a tower and doing the "off the tower" movement of guys which clearly was a root cause of more than one known tower incident.

I believe that a rusted base at the concrete exit point was a root cause and I am not sure I heard that mentioned.

W0AIH's fatality was in no way due to not using the proper safety harness.  There are pictures of him using one.  I am not sure what failed in his arrest system.  But wearing the wrong harness is not what it was.

To be truthful to the root cause analysis process, of which I do a lot if it at work, is there documented fatalities of wearing the lesser harness than what Jim was showing on the video?  If so, what happened, and how would it be mitigated by that ewquipment?

If we REALLY want to improve safety, we should focus on what's killing people.  Not on what isn't killing people.

Some of that occurred on Jim's talk.  Some of it did not.  And some of it is great advice but may have no direct impact on reducing what's killing people.

Ed  N1UR

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Tower safety

You got lucky.

I prefer not to rely on luck, and it doesn’t take much time to get properly suited up at all.

As for replacing the climbing apparatus, I wouldn’t trust it if it arrested a serious fall. Stress on that kind of apparatus is cumulative so there may be hidden danger.

This is your life you’re gambling with and by all means I won’t tell you how to live it, but I prefer not to roll the dice.

Ria
N2RJ

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:22 PM James Cain <jamesdavidcain at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did pretty serious tower work for more than 20 years and quit at age 44.
> By the time I had got suited up in that equipment in the K1IR video it 
> would have been too dark to get any work done. And what's this about 
> "If you fall, (the manufacturer says) to throw away the climbing apparatus"?
> And what? Buy another climbing apparatus from us?
>
> K1TN
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