Welcome to the world of red tape. On a gig early on coming out of the pandemic with several different
IATSE locals on-site. "The client needs these two scissor lifts moved over there because they want to set up an interview tent here." I was only able to move one, the other I said I need to locate a harness to move it. They replied why do you need a harness, you aren't going up? It's just a small
scissor lift! Also why can you only move one without a harness?
Well you see my employer requires it (whose site we were on) when driving any kind of lift, no matter what. However
scissor lift 1 over here has moveable controls so I can walk next to it driving it to the new location, however they are fixed on lift 2 so I can't do that, thus I need a harness. I've even had to pay a lot of money getting a rated attachment
point added to a standard single man push type bucket lift. In an
AWP, you must be
harnessed.
With that being said, we had someone that was extremely by the
book with the rules. He left us and started working with our lift provider. He lost his life loading one of the lifts onto a truck not wearing a harness. We were all shocked he wasn't wearing it.