Home Made Harness

[Rigger]

There was a thread a couple weeks ago concerning the cost of harness inspection and renewal, can look like the best option


Homemade harness brings £8,000 fine

posted 11:55
An agricultural contractor has been fined a total of £8,000 after using a homemade harness system while renovating a barn.
Ashton Farms Limited, of Trowbridge, Wiltshire admitted breaching two sections of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 by compromising worker safety.
The firm, based at Steeple Ashton, exposed workers to a fall from height risk for the jobs at Manor Farm Grittleton in Chippenham.
A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Inspector visited the farm last October and found two workers installing an outbuilding roof without adequate edge protection or nets to prevent them from falling.
Chippenham magistrates heard the workers at the farm in Alderton Road used an unvalidated homemade running line and harness system. This would not have prevented a fall and was unlikely to have prevented injury, the court heard.
The company, of Spiers Piece Farm, was fined £4,000 for each charge and was ordered to pay £3,986 in costs.
Copyright © Press Association 2011

 

[HatterScaff]

Remember seeing two ropes about 4ft apart, some 120ft up on a hangar
I asked the agent what they where, he said thats the painters scaffold:nuts:
one rope to stand on, and one to hold onto

 

[T.ANIMAL]

I knew a lad that use to have all the old harnesses from work from a big worldwide company, that were out of date and should have been cut up, but he flogged them at boot fairs a tenner a pop, sorry but if your working at height would you be so stupid to buy a harness at a boot fair. but people did.:amazed:

 

[allan666]

what was the harness a rope rounf his neck