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Webinar: Addressing Ladder Safety and Supporting Injury Prevention

Date: June 24, 2020 Presenter: Dr. Kayla Fewster Ladder-related falls are common across many workplace industries and result in high rates of injury. Within Canada, ladder related falls account for 66 emergency room visits per 100,000 workers[1]. In the event of a ladder-related fall, proper use of a fall-arrest system is critical for worker injury prevention. This webinar will focus on a recent research partnership between the Infrastructure Health & Safety Association (IHSA), Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development (MLTSD) and the Centre of Research Expertise for the Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD). The research aimed to establish safety criteria for ladder stability in the event of an operator fall with a fall-arrest system attached to the ladder rather than a fixed anchor point external to the ladder. Dr. Fewster will address results from this investigation as well as considerations for field-to-laboratory research involving potential violent workplace injury events. [1] Groff, P., Farmer, P., 2009. Falls from ladders. Ontario Inj. Compass 6 12. CRE-MSD and ACE launch webinar series: This free webinar is the first in a series of webinars offered through the collaboration of CRE-MSD and the Association of Canadian Ergonomists (ACE). Visit the CRE-MSD Event page for more information: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-of-resear...