Category: Engineering
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Gravitec Goes to Hawaii – Is This Work or Is This Vacation?
A few lucky Gravitec engineers and installers got to hop on a plane and head to Hawaii to install Horizontal Rigid UniRail Systems. It might have been hot while working on the roof, but the reward after a hard day’s work was well worth it. After work activities included renting a few motorcycles and driving…
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Gravitec Goes to Ross Dam
This summer, Gravitec had a unique opportunity at Ross Dam, a hydroelectric dam located in-between North Cascades National Park and Ross Lake National Recreation Area, just off Washington State Route 20. For two weeks Gravitec’s engineering staff had one of the most beautiful commutes into work. Day one started with a journey on a barge…
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Engineering Team Building
How much do you trust your coworkers? Enough to order the office supplies? How about leaving a project with a tight deadline on them? Sure most of us ask our coworkers to do these things every day, but at Gravitec we like to take employee trust to new heights…and speeds. Recently our engineering department spent…
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Sutro Tower Fall Protection Survey
Between Sutro Mountain and Twin Peaks, Sutro Tower, standing at over 900 feet, is an icon to the residents and visitors of San Francisco. Built in 1973, Sutro tower is a TV and radio antenna that services the entire bay area. Due to the bay area’s weather, and particularly because of the fog, this tower…
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Six Features to Look for When Selecting a Safety Harness
Six Features To Look For When Selecting A Safety Harness This article is posted with permission from Windpower Engineering & Development. The full-body harness is perhaps the most common piece of equipment in the fall protection industry. It is also possibly one of the most under-considered. A harness is a necessity for almost any worker…
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Hardware Compatibility: Your Life Depends on It
This article is posted with permission from Occupational Health & Safety. Click here to read this article as it appeared in the April 2009 issue of Occupational Health & Safety. By W. David Lough Compatible connections. No, we’re not talking about dating and whether a love match will crumble or bloom. We’re concerned with fall…
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Best Practices in Fall Protection
d..This article is posted with permission from Bay Publishing (www.bay-publishing.com). The highest level of fall protection for both employer and employees One of the best fall protection practices an employer can do is to develop a formal managed fall protection program. Adhering to minimum OSHA requirements is beneficial, but consistency suffers and OSHA regulations simply…
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Fall Protection and Rescue: A Systems Approach
This article is posted with permission from North American WINDPOWER. This article appeared in the June 2008 issue of North American WINDPOWER. There are significant benefits to understanding fall protection and rescue systems as a whole and designing, planning, and purchasing accordingly. Over the last few years, several thousand miles, four different countries, and more…
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Considerations for Fall-Arrest Anchor Points
This article is posted with permission from Windpower Engineering. Click here to read this article as it appeared in the May 2010 issue of Windpower Engineering. All fall-arrest equipment must meet some sort of standard and pass sometests so equipment manufacturers can ensure end users and employers that the equipment will perform to specifications. These…
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Back to the Basics
Every day on work sites all across the world, workers are put in situations where they are performing work at height. Any time a worker stands near an edge, climbs a tower, accesses a roof, or gets into a boom lift, there is an inherent danger of falling. During the past 20 years, the…
