NATE Announces Fall Prevention Worker Training Course Graduates

May 11, 2016

The Fall Prevention Worker Training Course, hosted by the National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE), in conjunction with Safety Controls Technology, was attended by 24 tower service and maintenance workers on April 28 in Sioux City, South Dakota.

NATE’s Fall Protection Worker Training courses are offered free of charge to eligible participants and are made possible due to a Susan Harwood Training grant (SH-27625-SH5) from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor.

The Fall Protection Worker Training course curriculum focuses on the hazards in the communication tower industry and includes employee rights, employer responsibilities, whistleblower protection, high angle rescue, principles of fall protection, principles of safe climbing, tower systems, testing safety climb systems, testing personal protective equipment (PPE) and conducting a job safety analysis.

Graduates include Eric Anderson, Tower Systems; Justin Friis, Harold Andrews, Dylan Elsik, Matt Andrews and Jesse Wickwire of SkyTop Towers; Nick Hauck, Landon Anker, Anthony Boyer, Todd Thorin and Antony Sargeant of Sioux Falls Tower & Communications; Frank Frahm, Tri State Tower; Dave Humble, Maguire Iron; Miles Mellor, Koda Mayrant, Aric Lowe and Michael Knudson, Kilowatt; Jayson Nelson, Anchorguard; Larry Nierengarten, Maguire Iron; Scott Riedesel ofTri State Tower; Lance Rosa, One Way Building Services; Vince Wellenstein and Shelby Soesbe, Needmore Towers; and Drew Stevens, Ehresmann Engineering, Inc.