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:: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 ::

eLCOSH : Will Your Safety Harness Kill You? By Bill Weems and Phil Bishop, Occupational Health & Safety magazine
All personnel should be trained that suspension in an upright condition for longer than five minutes can be fatal.

I was surprisingly comfortable with my legs dangling relaxed beneath me, and my arms outstretched in a posture that must have resembled a crucifixion. I had no feeling of stress and mused as to why this was considered dangerous. I felt I could stay in this position for a long time. Three minutes later, maybe less, I wondered why I suddenly felt so hot. The next thing I knew, they were reviving me from unconsciousness. I had just experienced what could be deadly for your workers who use safety harnesses. Fortunately for me, my suspension trauma occurred in the safe environment of the research ward of University of Texas Medical Branch Hospital at Galveston, Texas, where I was the first subject in a NASA experiment studying orthostatic intolerance in astronauts. Your workers won’t be so lucky.

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