ASSP Z359.1-2024 PDF

The Fall Protection Code is a set of standards that covers the following for the processes used to protect workers at height in a managed fall protection program:

• program management
• system design
• training
• qualification and testing
• equipment, component, and system specifications.

This standard identifies those requirements and establishes their role in the Fall Protection Code and their interdependence.

The Fall Protection Code encompasses standards for personal fall protection systems that incorporate a full body harness intended to protect the user against falls from a height either by preventing or arresting free falls. In general, systems that prevent a free fall are preferable to systems that arrest a free fall. The types of systems that shall be addressed by this Fall Protection Code include:

• Travel restraint systems
• Work positioning systems
• Rope access systems
• Fall arrest systems
• Rescue systems