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Ladder Safety Class Goes Wrong

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With all the serious topics being discussed on the board as of late, a moment of levity might be in store. Here's a guy from jolly old England demonstrating ground ladder safety to the employees of a private company. Cue the Benny Hill music please:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O-mLXJAf09w

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With all the serious topics being discussed on the board as of late, a moment of levity might be in store. Here's a guy from jolly old England demonstrating ground ladder safety to the employees of a private company. Cue the Benny Hill music please:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O-mLXJAf09w

Are you sure it wasn't a new type of bailout system?

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Bets he's glad that guy tossed him his helmet right before the ladder went down.

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Another video to be used to stress the importance of heeling a ladder. Guy is lucky he wasn't higher...but did anyone else see that coming as the ladder slid to the right when he was dismounting it for the demonstration?

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Another video to be used to stress the importance of heeling a ladder. Guy is lucky he wasn't higher...but did anyone else see that coming as the ladder slid to the right when he was dismounting it for the demonstration?

Ya i was gonna say the same thing. It is tied in to the fence but that would only keep it from kicking out, not side to side. Not really sure what he was doing. Not really a bail out scenario, maybe just a class 2 harness? Who knows. Footing may have helped but he was going down even if someone was there.

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Ya i was gonna say the same thing. It is tied in to the fence but that would only keep it from kicking out, not side to side. Not really sure what he was doing. Not really a bail out scenario, maybe just a class 2 harness? Who knows. Footing may have helped but he was going down even if someone was there.

Its always can be 50/50 but I've seen more stopped then go over in similar situations.

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This is simple physics, and a dumb idea. The point at which your center of gravity passes over the moment (the feet of the ladder acting as the pivot point) the object is going to tip in that direction. Any idiot could have realized this, and these guys obviously are mo-rons.

If this were to be bought by a company, and an employee were to actually violently fall off the ladder, it would have never stood a chance of holding him up. The momentum of the employee would pendulum swing him out and away from the moment, causing the ladder to fall even harder then it did in the video. Although, it would probably be a little bit softer then just free falling to the ground.

A majority of ladder accidents come from over extending the person out and away from the moment of the ladder. This device is completely useless since it works best in a vertical fall, directly down the center of the ladder, and not to the side.

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PS: The "trainer" got himself suspended from the job.....because he couldn't keep his self "suspended"....lol

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This is simple physics, and a dumb idea. The point at which your center of gravity passes over the moment (the feet of the ladder acting as the pivot point) the object is going to tip in that direction. Any idiot could have realized this, and these guys obviously are mo-rons.

If this were to be bought by a company, and an employee were to actually violently fall off the ladder, it would have never stood a chance of holding him up. The momentum of the employee would pendulum swing him out and away from the moment, causing the ladder to fall even harder then it did in the video. Although, it would probably be a little bit softer then just free falling to the ground.

A majority of ladder accidents come from over extending the person out and away from the moment of the ladder. This device is completely useless since it works best in a vertical fall, directly down the center of the ladder, and not to the side.

We may know that...but most others won't...hence the company is smarter then you think.

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