- Today, I'm gonna teach you how to inspect, select,
and properly fit a Full Body Harness.
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My name is Kevin Muldoon, Product Manager for
Fall Protection and Engineered Lifeline Systems
for the Mazzella Companies.
Today I'm gonna help you understand how to select,
inspect, and properly fit a Full Body Harness.
Now we're gonna start with selecting your harness.
There are about seven harnesses out there,
and it really depends on what you do for a living
and what you're actually doing the work for.
But we're going to look at a Full Body Harness which is
in my hand for general purpose.
And actually you should see how it comes in a bag.
So you'll see that it's got the name, serial number,
model number and it should be intact when you get it
from whoever you're buying it from.
In selecting a harness, it's very important to understand
that there's about seven or eight different types
of harnesses out there.
What you do for a living is gonna depend upon what you use.
What I have in my hand is a Full Body Harness
used for general industry.
Now, I wanna talk to you about how to inspect the harness.
I'm holding it by it's dorsal D-ring which is very effective
when you're looking at how the stitching is done.
Do you see any compromise in the stitching at all?
Are the buckles in tact?
Does it have everything that it needs to be put on?
Is there anything dangling down?
Does it look like it's been in a fall?
Does it look like it has any bladder
stains on from welding?
This one doesn't appear to be so.
But really you need to follow
the manufacturer's specification.
Refer to your owner's manual for any type of harness
that you have.
So now that we've helped you select and inspect the harness,
we need to show you how to properly fit the harness.
My associate Kevin, will help us with illustrating that.
As you can see he's starting with the breast attachment.
Now going on to his legs.
And then the mid support buckle.
And as you can see, this fits snugly, but comfortably.
Now we'll illustrate the legs and Kevin will actually
put his hand down in one of the sides,
and turn and make a fist.
If he can pull that out, it's too loose.
You really shouldn't have it that loose.
And this is properly tensioned to both of his legs
and his dorsal D-ring is up.
You can see his shoulders are form fitted right to it.
And as you can see, if Kevin was involved in a fall,
it would come up and his buttocks is right in the line
with where the force is going to be applied
if he were to go into a fall.
This is a proper illustration of how to fit a harness
and this is exactly how it should look for you.
You know it's too loose, you would see movement
and you would see if he actually did in fact have a fall,
part of his shoulder would fall off of it.
Which I cannot pull one of his shoulders out of it.
Out of the harness.
I can't pull his leg out of it.
You can see that if it was too loose that
that you would be able to do that,
but because it's snug, you know that it's fit correctly.
If it was too tight, Kevin would not be able to get his
hand through the leg support.
It would actually be encroaching too far up his shoulders
on his left and his right side.
Those areas would really be uncomfortable for him.
Remember, it should be comfortable, but snug.
So that is how you select, inspect,
and properly fit a harness.
If you have any questions, please contact us at Mazzella.
We'd be happy to help you out in any way we can.
Thank you for watching this video.
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