For your own safety, you should wear an approved parachute-type safety harness (fig. 3-5) with a safety lanyard and a tending line (as required) with double locking snap hooks whenever you work aloft. (The lineman-type safety belt is no longer authorized for use.) Safety harnesses should be checked periodically as prescribed by the Planned Maintenance System. Place the tools that you will use on the job in a canvas bag and haul the bag up with a line to the job location. To guard against dropping tools and seriously injuring someone, tie the tool you are using to your safety harness with a piece of line.

Figure 3-5.-Parachute-type safety harness.

The safety harness assembly consists of the following components:

1. Safety harness with lanyards (NSN-9G-4240-00-402-4514)

2. Working lanyard nylon (NSN-9G-4240-00-022-2518)

3. Safety lanyard with dynabrake (NSN-9G-4240-00-022-2521)

4. Safety harness (NSN-9G-4240-00-022-2522)

5. Safety climbing sleeve (NSN-9G-4240-01-042-9688)

WARNING SIGNS

Warning signs and suitable guards should be posted conspicuously in the appropriate places for the following purposes:

To keep personnel from accidentally coming into contact with dangerous voltages;

To warn personnel about possible explosive vapors and RFR radiation;

To warning personnel working aloft about the poisonous effects of stack gases;

To warn of other dangers that may cause injuries to personnel.

Installation of equipment is not considered complete unless appropriate warning signs are posted conspicuously.