Training required Ladders Pole climbing Aerial lift trucks Bottom Line Aerial safety practices are becoming more important as telecommunications plant upgrades continue to increase. Full-time employees, contractors, subcontractors and temporary hires are all working somewhere in your franchise s plant. Each work area has its own problems and personality regarding safe practices and fall protection. Low temperatures combined with moisture and high winds can have crews, in effect, working on ice skating rinks every time they put their feet down. Below-freezing temperatures make equipment unreliable with brittle and unyielding panels, door hooks and so on.
Work slows as crews bundle up and have to take breaks from work in subzero temperatures.
Stress is always present in construction projects. Deadlines do not change because of unfavorable weather conditions or because there is a labor shortage. Straining to meet goals for customers passed, project deadline and budget can mean adding more contractors with little concern for their training or equipment. Aerial safety Aerial safety and fall protection is only one of many areas we need to carefully evaluate under these circumstances. 503 cover many of the telecommunications requirements for aerial safety.