PFAS Inspection

Your PFAS must be inspected for damage each time—before you wear it! If there are defects, or if someone has taken a fall using the equipment, it must be removed from service.

PFAS Placement, Load Capacity, and Connectors

• The body harness must attach at the center of your back, near the shoulder level or above your head.
• Vertical lifelines or lanyards must have a minimum breaking strength of 5,000 pounds and be protected against being cut or abraded.
• Each worker must be attached to a separate vertical lifeline. (There is an exception when constructing elevator shafts.)
• A worker's PFAS anchorage must be independent of any anchorage used to support or suspend platforms, and it must be able to support at least 5,000 pounds per worker attached to it.
• Connectors must be made from steel or equivalent materials with a corrosion-resistant finish. The edges must be smooth.
• D-rings and snaphooks must have a minimum tensile strength of 5,000 pounds.
• Snaphooks must be a locking type and designed to prevent the snaphook from opening and slipping off the connector.
• Snaphooks cannot be directly connected to the webbing, rope, wire, another snaphook, a D-ring to which another snaphook or other connector is attached, a horizontal lifeline, or to any other object that could cause the snaphook to open.

If you have not used a PFAS yet, the list of things to know about them may seem long. That will change as it becomes familiar to you.

To learn more about Fall Protection visit our Construction Fall Protection Online Training web page.