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The only issue is they aren't wearing harnesses in case they fall off.
Given they are suspended over water, it may actually be better to not have the harness. If the whole thing were to tip the harness could get tangled and keep someone trapped under water.
Actually the rule is that if they were fully just over water they would be ok to not wear a harness but due to there being a platform beneath their working area OSHA would require harnesses with connections made to ceiling or a guide line installed for working at those heights. This is also true if you are between 2 boats for work as they are still seen as more dangerous.
But open water in a boom lift? Yeah, no harness needed.
I was also thinking strapped to the ceiling would be the safest
I for one, if you paid me enough to get on that thing would want to be able to nope away from it as fast as possible.
It's ok, i see at least one hardhat
They'll still have a brain to enjoy the quadrapeligia with
The other issue is when I chuck a stupendous peg-leg bombie next to their aqua-franken-scissor-tower.
Surfs up mfs.
Ok I'll take this as my opportunity to rant about a pet peeve.
Wearing a harness in this style of elevating work platform is more dangerous than not wearing one, and having a requirement to do so is part of what's wrong with work health and safety.
The only way someone falls out of this, beyond mechanical failure or tipping, is if they lean so far over the railing they fall out of it.
If I need to wear a harness in this, you need to wear one whenever you walk next to a balcony.
I am a paramedic for more than 2 decades now,but work in an office most days now. I have cared for (and in 2 cases declared death on scene) more people than I have fingers who fell off these. Besides two, neither of them was responsible for the fall.
2 cases of a hydraulic rupture (which leads to the platform going down fast and uneven. The harness is also meant to keep you close to the platform so you don't fall in between the elements.) 1 being raised stupidly,pushing a load onto their coworker(that was DOA) 1 fall due to being hit by a coworker with a part (DOA after 7m faceplant) And a fair share of units being hit by forklifts, trucks or similar things.
... OSHA rules are written in blood. And often the victims are not the ones who caused it.
Nobody is going accidentally bump your balcony with a forklift or any other equipment.
What? At any job I've had you'd be required to harness into something on the ceiling. So if the lift gave out, you'd just dangle there until you got rescued.
Wouldn't it be better for them to be wearing life jackets instead?