Work At Height – Hard Lessons to Learn

Work at height accidents will not stop, the numbers killed,  injured and paralysed will never reduce unless and until people choose to make safe choices and develop safe habits.  Experienced work at height professionals need to bear in mind their example to apprentices and the inexperienced.  If you are a role model, will what you practice become a good habit for others or a dangerous example which might lead directly to death or a wheelchair existence?

Check out the video in the featured videos section to hear and see some hard hitting footage from Matt Terry and Jason Anker.

Matt focusses on behaviour and uses examples of everyday experiences and attitudes to highlight how and why the safety message can be lost.  he also introduces Jason’s story.

At the age of 24, Jason was paralysed from the waist down after falling 10 feet from a ladder. It has taken Jason many hard years to be able to talk  about how the accident has affected not only his life but the lives of his family and friends. His story is gripping and appalling because all it took was one mistake one occasion where Jason failed to speak up and take charge of his own safety and his whole life was wrenched apart.  Even years after the accident Jason’s father bursts into tears. The inability to walk is the easiest thing for Jason to bear.  What are the hardest things?  Watch the video in the “featured videos section” – you’ll be shocked and moved to hear what Jason has to teach.