Meetings: arrest systems; NIOSH meeting,
[Federal Register: August 13, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 156)]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces the Following Meeting
Name: Scaffolding as an Anchorage Point for Fall-Arrest Systems.
Time and date: 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., September 22, 1998.
Place: Pittsburgh Airport Marriott, Coraopolis, Finley and Moore Rooms, 100 Aten Road, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania 15108.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by space available. The meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people, seating will be limited to approximately 70 people.
Purpose: To request public assistance in identifying useful, practical research design concepts to aid in determining under what conditions, if any, scaffolding can be used as a safe anchorage point for fall-arrest systems during erection and dismantling.
NIOSH is developing a research plan to investigate the use of scaffolding as a fall protection anchorage during scaffold erection and dismantling. This research will aid in determining under what circumstances, if any, it is advisable to use scaffolding as a fall protection anchorage. NIOSH is seeking individual input from scaffold and fall protection equipment manufacturers, scaffold erectors and users, regulatory agencies, and others on factors to be considered during the design of the research protocol.
The research will provide the public with information on the stability of scaffolding and the forces applied to scaffolding as a fall is arrested, for the cases tested. NIOSH researchers recognize that not all scaffold types and configurations, fall protection equipment, anchorage types and locations, and fall scenarios can be tested at one time. The research plan currently being developed will evaluate specific cases. It is anticipated that continuing research will evaluate additional cases. To make the research results as useful as possible, NIOSH researchers want to consider scaffold types and configurations, fall protection equipment, anchorage types and locations, and fall scenarios, that are or could be representative of practical scaffold use and any other input offered by the public that could improve the design of this research.
Contact person for additional information: Karl Snyder, NIOSH, CDC, M/S P119, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, telephone 304/285-5898.
Dated: August 6, 1998. Carolyn J. Russell, Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 98-21711Filed8-12-98; 8:45 am]
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