• Employee Training

General Training Requirements

All employees will successfully complete the appropriate level of fall protection training prior to beginning work in areas of high fall hazards, doing work requiring fall protection devices or using fall protection devices. This includes all new employees, regardless of claimed previous experience.

The training program includes classroom instruction and operational training on each specific area of fall hazard involved in the work of the employee.

There are three classes of fall protection employed on SBCCD campus. Each one is based on the risk of exposure to hazards, and the level of knowledge required by the employee.

• Class 1 - Hazard Elimination

A process or work activity is redesigned or engineered to eliminate employee exposure to a fall hazard. The best means of providing fall protection is always to eliminate the hazard.

• Class 2 - Fall Protection System

Fall protection systems passively barricade employees from reaching the hazard. No special training is required to know how to work safely around a fall hazard protected by a fall protection system.

Examples of Fall Protection Systems:

o   Guardrail Systems

o   Warning Line Systems

o   Guarding holes

o   Wall Openings and Stairs

o   Excavations

• Class 3 – Personal Fall Arrest Systems (PFASs)

Where acceptable fall protection or restraint systems are not feasible, employees will use a PFAS or other fall protection method with equivalent protection. 

A PFAS will consist of a full body harness, shock-absorbing lanyard with locking type snap-hook, and an anchor point capable of supporting 5000 pounds per worker.