[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 156 (Thursday, August 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 43399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21711]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Announces the
Following Meeting
Name: Scaffolding as an Anchorage Point for Fall-Arrest Systems.
Time and date: 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., September 22, 1998.
Place: Pittsburgh Airport Marriott, Coraopolis, Finley and Moore
Rooms, 100 Aten Road, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania 15108.
Status: Open to the public, limited only by space available. The
meeting room accommodates approximately 100 people, seating will be
limited to approximately 70 people.
Purpose: To request public assistance in identifying useful,
practical research design concepts to aid in determining under what
conditions, if any, scaffolding can be used as a safe anchorage point
for fall-arrest systems during erection and dismantling.
NIOSH is developing a research plan to investigate the use of
scaffolding as a fall protection anchorage during scaffold erection and
dismantling. This research will aid in determining under what
circumstances, if any, it is advisable to use scaffolding as a fall
protection anchorage. NIOSH is seeking individual input from scaffold
and fall protection equipment manufacturers, scaffold erectors and
users, regulatory agencies, and others on factors to be considered
during the design of the research protocol.
The research will provide the public with information on the
stability of scaffolding and the forces applied to scaffolding as a
fall is arrested, for the cases tested. NIOSH researchers recognize
that not all scaffold types and configurations, fall protection
equipment, anchorage types and locations, and fall scenarios can be
tested at one time. The research plan currently being developed will
evaluate specific cases. It is anticipated that continuing research
will evaluate additional cases. To make the research results as useful
as possible, NIOSH researchers want to consider scaffold types and
configurations, fall protection equipment, anchorage types and
locations, and fall scenarios, that are or could be representative of
practical scaffold use and any other input offered by the public that
could improve the design of this research.
Contact person for additional information: Karl Snyder, NIOSH, CDC,
M/S P119, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505,
telephone 304/285-5898.
Dated: August 6, 1998.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 98-21711 Filed 8-12-98; 8:45 am]
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