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27.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Risk assessment

Fundamentally, employers are responsible for the safety of their employees. They are also legally obliged to perform a solid, complete risk assessment of all workplaces, in order to minimise the risk of accidents from the very outset. This applies particularly to activities with increased potential risk, such as cleaning, servicing, and maintenance tasks in fall-risk areas.

22.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Restraint system and fall arrest system - what is the difference?

While a restraint system protects the user from a fall by preventing him from even accessing the fall-risk areas, a fall arrest system intercepts the user if he does actually fall.

22.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Restraint system and fall arrest system - what is the difference?

Two skilled workers on a pitched roof with an INNOTECH restraint and fall arrest system

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27.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Risk assessment

Fundamentally, employers are responsible for the safety of their employees. They are also legally obliged to perform a solid, complete risk assessment of all workplaces, in order to minimise the risk of accidents from the very outset. This applies particularly to activities with increased potential risk, such as cleaning, servicing, and maintenance tasks in fall-risk areas.

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Fall height illustrated by a man standing on top of a building in the mountains.
23.05.2023 | Technical Terms

Fall height

The fall height denotes the height from which the fall victim hits the ground or a different surface during a fall. The selection of the right dimensions for the suitable fall...

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Sign informing about suspension trauma
24.04.2023 | Technical Terms

Suspension trauma

Dreaded as a possible consequence of a fall, suspension trauma may lead to a life-threatening condition through unconsciousness. While statistically rare, suspension trauma and its...

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The STOP principle includes protective measures for workplaces with a high hazard potential.
27.03.2023 | Technical Terms

STOP principle

The STOP principle is applied to determine, establish, and implement protective measures for workplaces having high risk potential, and it forms part of a risk assessment. Each...

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A desk on which a safety concept is made.
27.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Safety concept

The only way to neutralise exposed workplaces and make them safe is through a professional, watertight safety concept. And that is also the legally mandated obligation of the...

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Collective fall protection at an airport
27.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Collective fall protection

Collective fall protection reliably secures all people located on a flat roof (maximum inclination 20 degrees) or on the upper surface of a flat machine. It neutralises the danger...

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Contents rescue concept
27.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Rescue concept for fall protection

After a person using a fall protection system has fallen, they are usually in a hanging position at height. In order to prevent further physical damage (including suspension trauma),...

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27.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Pendulum fall

A pendulum fall is a dangerous consequence of a protected fall from a height. The person who has fallen swings to and fro like a pendulum and can crash into obstructions and scrape...

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27.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Risk assessment

Fundamentally, employers are responsible for the safety of their employees. They are also legally obliged to perform a solid, complete risk assessment of all workplaces, in order to...

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Illusion of safety due to missing or inappropriate fall protection.
27.03.2023 | Technical Terms

Illusion of safety

As a rule, a safety concept that is insufficient for the onsite requirements provides no safety at all. This is what we call the illusion of safety. And this is a type of Russian...

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