Capital Safety Group, experts in fall protection

Fall protection consistently ranks among the most cited violations. Employers have a duty to provide fall protection systems to all employees working at height. With all the options out there, selecting a complete system appropriate to the application can be quite a task. Capital Safety is the leading designer and manufacturer of fall protection equipment including the industry’s most respected brands, DBI-SALA and PROTECTA. With the largest worldwide sales organization ready to assist and provide expert local support, employers are sure to find the equipment they need to remain compliant and cost conscious with Capital Safety Group.

Capital Safety Group benefits from over 60 years of experience and innovation expertise to guarantee even more security and comfort to protect workers from falls when working at height.

As a worldwide leader, Capital Safety Group not only offers a wide range of products, systems but also solutions (such as side entry confined space, intrinsically safe Fall arrest,…compact blocs, …) and services (such as survey, maintenance and bloc repair, training, advising, …).

DBI-SALA represents the ultimate in fall protection equipment for any work environment. Customers rely on DBI-SALA for excellence, innovation, and a broad range of solutions. DBI-SALA’s innovative products go beyond traditional fall protection equipment. i-Safe™ Intelligent Safety System, for example, is an innovative RFID system for paperless inventory and inspection log in that reduces time by well over 30 percent.

PROTECTA represents fundamental fall protection at an exceptional value. Customers choose PROTECTA for the products’ reliability, quality, and economy.

The PROTECTA line offers basic, low cost fall protection gear, keeping the cost of safety programs low, while keeping workers safe and in compliance with applicable standards.

Both brands are backed by the best training, technical assistance and customer service in the industry.

Capital Safety also offers fall protection training courses for all levels. Its new programs will educate participants on the requirements of the new standard and provide practical, hands-on experience. Training programs are available to meet the requirements of authorized and competent person/rescuer, program administrator, qualified person as well as inspection, confined space, climbing and trainer courses.

Capital Safety’s training courses engage the participant. By creating courses that demand active participation, the student becomes involved in the learning process, increasing comprehension and retention. Capital Safety provides application and employer-specific training by providing a variety of core training programs and supplementing them with custom training. Training Courses are provided either in our training centers or onsite.

Solely manufacturer dedicated to fall protection equipments, Capital Safety Group has 8 operating sites, a presence (sales and distribution) across 70 countries, 3,000 trained distributors and more than 10,000 products/systems.

As annual inspection and maintenance have to be done; trough our network we do have a worldwide coverage for associated center as maintenance and bloc repairs

Capital Safety is committed to quality, breadth, expertise, training and innovation, which have led to these industry-leading accomplishments:

• Largest and most innovative research and development department in the industry
• Specified by more industrial and oil companies than any other fall protection provider
• Top industry technical experts and world class training facilities

Capital Safety provides more than just products; it offers absolute confidence:

• Confidence that you are doing everything possible to ensure total compliance
• Confidence that you have adopted the best business solution to ensure compliance, productivity and cost-effectiveness
• Confidence that your employees will go home safe each night

Fall protection is a relatively new innovation on drilling and service rigs. In the past 12 years, safety equipment and enforcement have come a long way, and as a result, deaths due to falls have been reduced. Many workers today understand the dangers associated with fall hazards, but challenges still exist.

Where are we today? A good percentage of drilling and service rigs are now outfitted with fall protection equipment. Further, fall protection is now standard on most new rig lists before being put into service for the first time. A few of the standard fall protection systems and equipment now on many service and drilling rigs include:

• Special harnesses dedicated for tasks integrating high standard of safety and comfort at work: Derrick Harnesses, riding up harnesses, Welding Harnesses, …
• Sealed self-retracting lifelines installed at the crown and/or ladder safety systems for protection while climbing the derrick ladder.
• A sloped-line cable or boom arm installed over the monkey board to provide an anchor for a smaller SRL used for secondary protection to the primary positioning lanyard.
• New harness designs specific for use by rig workers for added comfort and safety.
• Horizontal lifelines installed for use by workers when rigs are laid over and in other areas such as above the BOPs and stabbing board.
• Fall protection equipment lockers including anchoring products, twin-leg lanyards and extra self-retracting lifelines.

Capital Safety develops and tests products (efficiency, comfort, …) according to customers needs, directly with the users:

• Involving from design stage to field test the daily-users / the workers
• Customizing series for specific customers
• Most recent successes: Derrick & riding up harness, Retrieval harnesses, Heavy duty and rough environment Sealed Block
• New sloped-line escape systems – vertical and slope Decender 120m
• Man rated tuggers (winch lines) and/or new tension/load limiters that can be used to safely raise workers to difficult access areas on the derrick... “Riding up a man is not anymore a safety issue”
• Rig Floor/Deck Horizontal Life line Systems to be used during rig up and down while guardrails are removed.
• ATEX – Intrinsically Safe Fall Protection range
• i-Safe™ – tracking, inventorying, inspecting with a PDA + RFID tags

Our recent successes in custom products are the result of this long experience and relation with the users.

We have recently cured 2 majors’ issues on a rig and on refineries.

1. Climbing a ladder, riding up working from a derrick board; these requested different harnesses for the same workers having various tasks to accomplish. We have developed a versatile harness which can be used in almost all configurations. Thanks to our strong partnership and end user focus; we have been able to draw all the specs (for the various applications of this harness and different country norms) design, test the prototype altogether with the users.
2. Scaffoldings on a petrochemical plant are mandatory for any maintenance and inspection at height. Most of the time ; task itself is shorter than installing this scaffolding. Also in some cases Scaffoldings are not designed to carry a fall (anchorage >22KN). We have designed a portable ladder system (with a top board) on wheels, adjustable in Height up to 12m, rated to carry a Fall of 2 workers; easy to push and pull even by hand. This brings safe and fast response to all minor interventions.

The thing to remember is that falls, like car accidents, don’t discriminate. They can occur at the most familiar locations at any time because workers and drivers alike let their guard down.

Please contact us on: oilandgas@capitalsafety.com or telephone: +33 4 97100010 or fax: +33 4 93 08 79 70
www.capitalsafety.com