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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Minimum Clearance Distance in Fall Arrest Systems with Energy Absorber Lanyards.

Elena Ángela Carrión, Belén Ferrer, Juan Francisco Monge, Pedro Ignacio Saez, Juan Carlos Pomares, Antonio González

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Effects of Safety Harnesses Protecting against Falls from a Height on the User's Body in Suspension.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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6 authors.

Elena Ángela CarriónBuilding & Urban Development Department, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8310-8599
Belén FerrerCivil Engineering Department, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-8455-5534
Juan Francisco MongeCenter of Operations Research, Miguel Hernandez University of Elche, 03202 Elche, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1224-1867
Pedro Ignacio SaezBuilding & Urban Development Department, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1240-2635
Juan Carlos PomaresCivil Engineering Department, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6773-9112
Antonio GonzálezCivil Engineering Department, University of Alicante, 03690 Alicante, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accidents due to falls from height are one of the main causes of death in workplaces. Fall arrest systems (FAS) are designed to arrest the fall safely without injuring the accident victim. Their main mission is to restrain the body so as to prevent it from hitting the ground, generating forces and accelerations in the arrest process that are not harmful. A lack of empirical evidence and scant technical information provided by manufacturers regarding minimum clearance distance (MCD) below anchorage makes it necessary to study the safety distances required in the use of Energy Absorber Lanyards (EAL). This paper aims to determine the MCD below anchorage to arrest a fall using an EAL without hitting the ground. The real deformation of EAL when stopping a fall is studied. Ten EAL models distributed internationally by six manufacturers were chosen. Dynamic behavior tests were performed on the samples. Using image processing the total elongation of the equipment (elastic plus plastic) is obtained. The main conclusions are that maximum plastic elongation could be reduced by 29%. The method described in EN 355: 2002 underestimates elongation by up to 70% for some equipment 20% of EAL's exceed the maximum arrest force (

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Accidental FallsProtective DevicesKineticsLaw EnforcementMechanical Phenomenaclearance distancedynamic performance testelastic and plastic deformationenergy absorber lanyardfall arrest systemshigh-speed camera

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PMID34071578
PMCPMC8198569

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