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About Us

Introduction

Our Fall Safety System is unique in that it possesses the flexibility to be used as both a Active safety system, or as a Passive system. By definition, an active restraint system requires the worker to take an active role in ensuring his or her own safety. Usually, this involves fitting the worker with a safety harness and then attaching the safety harness to a secure location. In this system, the worker is unprotected when the worker removes the harness from the secure location to move to a different work area. By contrast, a passive restraint system usually consists of a safety net to protect a falling worker.

Our Fall Safety System gives the option of a attaching a safety harness and lanyard to the stanchion to access some areas that are not already in compliance for fall protection.

Background

In 1995, the 109th Air National Guard in Scotia, New York, approached L.G. White and Sons, Inc. to develop a new Fall Protection System for working on aircraft. The requirements were to make the new Fall Protection system effective, easy to use, and inexpensive. The 109th ordered the first system in October of 1995 and it has been in continuous use ever since.

The SAFETY NET SUPPORT ARRAY is Patented by Lawrence G. White, President of L.G.White Safety Corp., and is a sole sourced item through L.G.White Safety Corp.

The system is fool proof and has never had an accident or injury. Customers are using the system throughout the United States from Puerto Rico to California.

Methodology

An analysis of the structural capacity of the Safety Net Stanchion was conducted using the Allowable Stress Design method for aluminum structures as presented in the Aluminum Design Manual, Sixth Edition. The stanchion was analyzed to resist a static load of 300 lbs. applied at the highest position that the personnel netting can be attached to the Universal Support Frame. This loading case is fifty percent (50%) greater than the 200 lbs, static force that was indicated as the minimum criteria by OSHA.

Since fatigue loading is not a concern, it was decided to apply the safety factor for building construction as specified in the Aluminum Design Manual, Sixth Edition.

Since the Active/Passive Fall Safety System utilizes stanchions of different size leg assemblies, it was decided to conduct two analyses. The first was the Long Leg version, which induced maximum moments in the bottom leg strut, but minimum loads in the top strut and Universal Support Frame. The second analysis was the short Leg version, which induced minimal moments in the bottom chord, but produced maximum moments in the top strut and Universal Support Frame. It is anticipated that any configuration of leg assemblies within these two limits will be structurally adequate.

Results

The analysis confirmed that the Safety Net Stanchions, as detailed on the plans, are structurally adequate to resist the indicated minimum load. However, since the stanchions are not stable in every plane, the analysis assumes that the stanchions are properly anchored and oriented such that there will always be at least one stanchion oriented so as to resist the applied load perpendicular to the Universal Support Frame.

Ordering Fall Safety Equipment

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Our products are patented under Patent Number: 5,653,308