I was surprisingly comfortable with my legs dangling relaxed beneath me, and my arms outstretched in a posture that must have resembled a crucifixion. I had no feeling of stress and mused as to why ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Gorilla Treestands issued a Dec. 18 voluntary recall for a full body safety harness. The recall affected Gorilla’s Pullover Style Full Body Safety ...

THREE hundred feet in the air, stepping from girder to girder, the last thing I want running through my head is a question regarding the safety equipment I am using. Will the fundamental design of ...

The importance of a good tree stand harness cannot be understated. We’ve heard far too many regretful stories from hunters who didn’t utilize the proper safety procedures in the field. Many end up ...

Every deer season, tragic loss of life could be avoided. We lose hunters each year to falls from treestands. Wearing a safety harness would likely have saved those lives. Safety is paramount when ...

The fall protection program in many companies is woefully out of touch with the reality of materials and physics. Often, it consists of the user performing a perfunctory visual inspection and a “feel ...

Capital Safety has released an RFID-based system for its DBI-SALA fall-protection harnesses that allows users to better track where their harnesses are, who is using them and when they were most ...

HOUSTON — Pure Safety Group (PSG), the largest company dedicated solely to fall protection, has unveiled its Guardian Fall Protection S1 safety harness. The S1 is the first in a series of innovative ...

Hunters suffering injuries when they fell from tree stands marred the opening of deer season in and around the Midstate. Two men fell from stands on opening day (Sept. 27) and a third fell three days ...

A UW Stout clothing design team creates an evacuation harness. A remarkable five member clothing design team from UW Stout created an evacuation harness for the safety of wheelchair bound people. The ...