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Preventing Falls in Construction - Prioritizing Safety

This blog discusses effective prevention strategies and proven systems for fall prevention at the workplace. By identifying risks, instituting strict fall protection measures, and building a culture for safety, companies can minimize injury, reduce lost productivity, and save lives.

Prioritizing Safety: Preventing Falls in Construction

Learn how Pelsue’s American-made safety solutions ensure quality and reliability for telecommunications, utilities, and construction industries despite tariff challenges.

Pelsue’s 60-Year American-Made Legacy Amidst Tariff Uncertainty  

For decades, American industries like telecommunications, utilities, and construction have relied on steady supply chains to source the tools and equipment critical to their operations. However, recent tariff shifts, particularly on Chinese imports, have disrupted the landscape, adding significant uncertainty for many businesses. With unpredictability in pricing and availability, professionals in these essential industries are reassessing their options. 

How do you ensure dependable, high-quality solutions for your operations while navigating these challenges? The answer lies in trusted, American-made companies with a proven track record. Enter Pelsue, a leader in industrial safety solutions with over 60 years of experience manufacturing right here in the USA.  


Pelsue’s 60-Year American-Made Legacy Amidst Tariff Uncertainty

Find the best Pelsue rescue equipment for confined spaces. Protect workers and responders. Shop now!

Rescue Equipment for Confined Spaces | Shop Now

We know that working in confined spaces can be dangerous, making it essential for you and your team to have the right rescue equipment on hand in case of an emergency. Our decades of experience designing fall protection tools  has led us to thoroughly appreciate and understand the vital role rescue equipment plays. Rescue equipment does not just protect lives, but it can save them, too.

Your fall protection post is a unique tool in your confined space safety toolkit. Learn how it works, when to use it, & some unique product features in our guide.

Fall Protection Post | A User Guide

As an organization with more than half a century of experience designing and manufacturing fall protection equipment, we believe that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. That’s why we love adaptable tools like our fall protection posts.

The difference between a winch & a hoist may seem blurry, but there are differences that effect how you search, shop, & use hoists & winches. Our blog explains.

The Difference Between a Winch and Hoist and Why It Matters

If you’re searching for fall rescue and recovery equipment, chances are you’ve seen some terminology that may have left you scratching your head and wondering what, exactly, is the difference between a winch and hoist?

The ABCs of Fall Protection are the basics every worker exposed to fall hazards needs. Everything you need to know about anchorage, body support, & connectors.

ABCs of Fall Protection | Essentials of Fall Safety

Fall safety doesn’t need to be complicated. All sorts of people strap themselves into a harness every day, and they each need to be able to master the same essentials: the ABCs of Fall Protection.

The ABCs of Fall Protection: The Essentials of Fall Safety

Your DIT tent is crucial for cinematographers, photographers, & anyone on outdoor film sets. Our tent keeps you dark, cool, & equipped for long days in the sun.

DIT Tent | Sun-Blocking Tents for Cinematography

For 50 years, we’ve built our reputation for worker safety equipment in telecommunications, construction, and more. But it’s not just people in these industries who rely on us. Our DIT Tent is proof of that.

DIT Tent | Why Our SolarShade® Tents are Favorites on Film Sets

Guarding open manholes is a crucial requirement for every work crew you have out in the field. Read our comprehensive guide to learn regulations, tools, & tips.

Guarding Open Manholes | What You Need to Know

Some of the most important confined space fall protection measures happen just outside the confined space. Guarding open manholes is a crucial step in maintaining a safe job site.

Guide to Guarding Open Manholes

Having the right davit base is critical to worker safety. Pelsue offers both permanent and portable davit base options to suit your project and workspace environment.

Davit Bases | Find the Right Davit Base for Fall Protection & Rescue

In 2020 alone, out of more than 1,000 recorded construction fatalities, 351 were due to lower level falls. Even one fatality is too many, which is why we think it’s critical to familiarize yourself with OSHA construction fall protection standards while you’re still in the project planning stages and before heading out to a job site.

Our portable confined space rescue equipment user guide shows you how davits, SRLs, and more work in the field so you can respond to confined space emergencies.

Portable Confined Space Rescue Equipment User Guide

Your job takes you all over the map. Our portable confined space rescue equipment protects you wherever you go.

Working in the cold? Our 7 cold weather work safety tips will help you keep you and your crews safe so you can do your job safely in rough weather.

7 Cold Weather Work Safety Tips

Cold and clumsy fingers, hypothermia, frostbite: it’s all more reminiscent of outdoor survival stories than workplace hazards. We want to provide you some cold weather work safety tips that will help protect workers when temperatures tumble.

Workplace safety is key to reducing human and financial losses in the renewable energy sector of the utilities industry. Making sure your employees utilize the right tools and equipment is important to improving your workplace safety. 

Workplace Safety for the Renewable Energy Industry

Billed by many energy industry watchdogs as a clean energy revolution, the United States saw a 100% increase from 2000 to 2018, making renewable energy the fastest growing energy source in the country.

Workplace safety is key to reducing human and financial losses in the wastewater sector of the utilities industry. Making sure employees use the right tools and equipment is important to improving your workplace safety. 

Workplace Safety for the Wastewater Industry

There are about 153,000 public drinking water systems and over 16,000 publicly owned wastewater treatment systems in the United States. While more than 80% of the US population receives their potable water from these drinking water systems, nearly 75% have their sanitary sewerage treated by these wastewater systems.

Workplace safety is key to reducing human and financial losses in the telecommunications industry. Making sure employees use the right tools and equipment is important to improving your workplace safety.

Workplace Safety for the Telecommunications Industry

Providing a safe workplace not only protects employees from injury and illness, it’s been proven to reduce costs, lower employee absence and turnover, increase productivity, optimize performance, and can positively reflect a company’s reputation by showing that the company is doing their part when it comes to corporate responsibility. Studies overwhelmingly show that employees who feel valued and safe in the workplace are more likely to contribute to the well-being of the business. 

Workplace Safety for Telecommunication Industry

How to safely use propane heaters in work tents. We explain how to stay safe and stay warm in your work tent.

Answered: Is it Safe to Use a Propane Heater in a Work Tent?

We explain how to stay safe and stay warm in your work tent using propane. It’s completely understandable to have reservations about using a propane-powered heater in your work tent. We’re here to help you learn how to safely keep you and your crews warm. 

Safely Using Propane Heaters in Work Tents

A check of your fall protecion equipment could save a life. Here's our downloadable PDF OSHA inspection checklist to help.

OSHA Checklist: Fall Protection Equipment Inspection | Pelsue

Conducting a thorough visual inspection of your fall protection and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is a crucial and necessary step before undertaking any job. We wanted to help both standardize the task and make it easier with an OSHA inspection checklist for fall protection equipment. 

OSHA Checklist: Fall Protection Equipment Inspection

A handy guide to the 3 different Davit Fall Protection Bases: Permanent, Portable, and Vehicle Hitch-Mounted

Davit Fall Protection System Bases | Pelsue

At Pelsue, we are proud to produce Davit systems for every worksite. Each Davit system consists of a Davit arm, elbow, post, and base. It’s that base which allows the Davit to be so adaptable. 

Davit Fall Protection System Bases

What requirements has OSHA put together for Confined Space Attendants? What does an attendant do? Learn more!

Confined Space Attendant Requirements | Pelsue

Don’t be mistaken: confined space attendants have crucial duties and responsibilities. If you’ve ever observed work going on in a permit-required confined space, you may have asked yourself, “why is that person just standing there? What does a confined space attendant actually do?” 

Confined Space Attendant Requirements

Axial VS Centrifugal Blowers. What's the difference?

Axial VS Centrifugal Blowers: Which is Better? | Pelsue

At Pelsue, we believe in selecting the right tool for the job. And when you need to do the important work of ventilating your workspaces, it helps to understand the difference between axial and centrifugal (sen-TRI-fuh-gl) blowers.  

Axial VS Centrifugal Blowers: Which is Better?

It’s a vital part of any fall protection, prevention, or recovery system. The crucial, but often overlooked, link between a worker and the system anchoring them to safety. Perhaps it’s time that the humble rope got the respect it has earned.

Material Matters: Technora® Rope, the Unsung Hero | Pelsue

It’s a vital part of any fall protection, prevention, or recovery system. The crucial, but often overlooked, link between a worker and the system anchoring them to safety.  

Material Matters: Technora® Rope, the Unsung Hero

People in some corners of the internet share images like these for laughs. But if you’ve ever been injured in an on-the-job fall, you can see there are serious, even life-threatening hazards shown here.

Why is Fall Protection so Important? | Pelsue

People in some corners of the internet share images like these for laughs. But if you’ve ever been injured in an on-the-job fall, you can see there are serious, even life-threatening hazards shown here. Fall protection is a major consideration for a wide range of businesses, and a major source of OSHA violations. Let’s take a closer look at the basic facts of fall protection. It can mean the difference between your employees going home at the end of the day, or ending up in the hospital.

Why is Fall Protection so Important?

Pelsue SolarShade® work shelters are an engineered solution to beat the heat at outdoor work sites by providing relief from the sun. 

SolarShade® Work Shelters - Heat Relief Solution | Pelsue Blogs

Feeling the heat this summer? Pelsue SolarShade® Work Shelters are an engineered solution to beat the heat at outdoor work sites by providing relief from the sun.

SolarShade® Work Shelter: The Ideal Heat Relief Solution

Ventilating confined spaces is essential for providing safe air to breathe for entrants in a confined space. In typical confined space applications, blowers are used to blow in fresh air from outside of the confined space, pushing hazardous air out.

Blowers & Heaters for Confined Spaces | Pelsue

Ventilating confined spaces is essential for providing safe air to breathe for entrants in a confined space. In typical confined space applications, blowers are used to blow in fresh air from outside of the confined space, pushing hazardous air out. Confined space blowers are designed for the application by having high static pressure, so that air can effectively been ventilated with long duct hoses.

Blowers & Heaters for Confined Spaces

Hoists (also sometimes referred to as winches) are mechanical raising and lowering devices. Hoists are designed for the routine raising and lowering of personnel and equipment (depending on the hoist) or for rescuing personnel in the event of an emergency.

Hoists & SRLs for Confined Spaces | Pelsue

In confined spaces, hoists and SRLs (self-retracting lifelines) are essential in saving lives in the event a rescue is needed, or if a fall occurs. Hoists (also sometimes referred to as winches) are mechanical raising and lowering devices. Hoists are designed for the routine raising and lowering of personnel and equipment (depending on the hoist) or for rescuing personnel in the event of an emergency.

Hoists & SRLs for Confined Spaces

Fall Protection & Rescue System for Confined Spaces | Pelsue

When entering a confined space, it is important to have the proper fall protection and rescue system. The system is responsible for arresting a potential fall, raising and lowering personnel and equipment in the space, and in the case of the LifeGuard—creating a barricade. Pelsue manufactures three main fall protection systems for confined spaces: the LifeGuard, Davit, and Tripod.

Fall Protection & Rescue Systems for Confined Spaces

You may have noticed (and we hope you have!) that we've completely rebuilt the Pelsue website from the ground up to provide our customers a better user experience.

New Website Launch & Highlights | Pelsue

You may have noticed (and we hope you have!) that we’ve completely rebuilt the Pelsue website from the ground up to provide our customers a better user experience.

New Website Launch & Highlights

Pelsue is excited to launch our new davit design! The design is sleeker, includes two pulleys on the offset arm, and is easy to setup with a 3-piece pin system.

Product Launch: New Davit | Pelsue

Product Launch: New Davit

2019 Trade Shows & Events | Pelsue

Pelsue will be attending a variety of trade shows across the country this year. From February to October, we will be traveling to each event with some of our highest quality vehicles and equipment.

2019 Trade Shows & Events

Confined Space Buyer's Guide | Pelsue

At Pelsue, we’ve been creating safe work environments since 1963. Many of our products help make confined spaces safer for workers.  In 2017, 166 workers died in confined spaces in the United States, a rise of 15% from the year prior. It is our goal to reduce this number dramatically by manufacturing confined space equipment for: fall protection and rescue, ventilation, and manhole equipment. We also manufacture products which help workers stay focused on the task at hand by protecting them from the elements, such as our industry-leading work tents, and confined space heaters.

Confined Space Buyer’s Guide

Gas Monitors are essential for entering confined spaces safely. Statistics indicate that atmospheric hazards are the most common cause of death in confined spaces.

Gas Monitors for Confined Spaces | Pelsue

Gas Monitors are essential for entering confined spaces safely. Statistics indicate that atmospheric hazards are the most common cause of death in confined spaces. Atmospheric hazards often can’t be seen or smelt, which is why gas monitors save lives.

Gas Monitors for Confined Spaces

2020 Trade Shows and Events | Pelsue

Pelsue will be attending a variety of trade shows across the country this year. From February to November, we will be traveling to each event with some of our highest quality vehicles and equipment. Here’s a look at some of the events we will be attending, as well as our booth number. Stop by and see what we have to offer!  

2020 Trade Shows and Events

Protecting manholes is important not only to the entrants, but also to the supporting staff and bystanders. The ultimate goal—keep unwanted objects out of the manhole. Pelsue manufacturers three main ways to protect manholes: shields, guards, and tents.

Manhole Protection: Shields, Guards, and Tents | Pelsue

Manhole Protection: Shields, Guards, and Tents

When rapid deployment and durability are required, you can rely on Pelsue work tents to do the job. Set up is fast, simple and can be done with just one person. 

Pelsue Tents: Effective and Dependable, Every Time | Pelsue

When rapid deployment and durability are required, you can rely on Pelsue work tents to do the job. Set up is fast, simple and can be done with just one person. All work tents feature a tension pop-up design with one-piece construction, so you don’t have to worry about losing any rods, and the tent can be deployed as fast as you can ‘pop’ each side out—generally around 1 minute.

Pelsue Tents: Effective and Dependable, Every Time

Heat stress encompasses a range of conditions: from heat rash and heat cramp, to heat exhaustion, to heat stroke, which could be fatal.  

The Dangers of Heat Stress and How to Prevent It | Pelsue

The summer months are fast approaching and crews all over are gearing up for prime outdoor work season. But as the temperature climbs, so does the risk of heat stress for outdoor workers.  

The Dangers of Heat Stress and How to Prevent It

At Pelsue we have 9 different work tent colors: yellow, white, black, silver, orange, lime green, forest green, royal blue, and cocoa. 

Work Tent Colors: What Are My Options? | Pelsue Blog

We’ve spoken before about the many impressive qualities of our work tents here at Pelsue. They’re durable, adaptable, and easy to transport and set up, even when you’re by yourself. 

Work Tent Colors: What Are My Options?

Cave-ins are, the leading cause of death in trenching operations. How do you keep your team up to date on trench safety?

Excavation and Trench Safety: Protection Goes Underground | Pelsue Blog

What measures 1 cubic yard but can weigh up to 3,000 pounds? If you answered “soil,” you can see why trench and excavation operations can be so dangerous. According to OSHA data, the fatality rate during excavation work is 112% higher than during general construction.  

Excavation and Trench Safety: Protection Goes Underground

You’ve seen the picture. Eleven workers calmly eating lunch while they sit on a girder of the Empire State Building hundreds of feet above the streets of New York.  

The History of Fall Protection: From the Mountain to the Workplace | Pelsue

The History of Fall Protection: From the Mountain to the Workplace 

Manufacturing a high-quality product starts with premium materials. Pelsue has been producing top-level equipment for over half a century, we’ve been able to form relationships that enable us to source the best materials for each application.  

Material Matters: The Advantage of Pelsue Work Tent Fabric | Pelsue

Material Matters: The Advantage of Pelsue Work Tent Fabric

For over half a century, we’ve been manufacturing the highest quality workplace safety equipment from Englewood, Colorado. 

Material Matters: The Carbon Fiber Revolution  | Pelsue

Material Matters: The Carbon Fiber Revolution 

Of all the hazards that go along with confined space work, it’s the invisible one that often captures peoples’ imagination: toxic gas. 

Confined Space Safety: The Hazards of Gas | Pelsue

Confined Space Safety: The Hazards of Gas

Workplace accidents, injuries, and fatalities broken down by state across the United States. Learn about worker safety in the U.S.

Workplace Injuries and Fatalities | Breakdown by State | United States

As we break down the data on injuries and fatalities across the United States, let’s start with the good news: it’s generally getting safer to be a worker in the U.S.  

Workplace Injuries, Accidents, and Fatalities | A State by State Breakdown

Confined space rescue plans can mean the difference between life and death for an injured worker. Read our guide on the basics of what your rescue plan needs.

Confined Space Rescue Plans: What You Need to Know

Confined space rescue is a sensitive operation, one you don’t want to improvise. You can have the best equipment, but if your team is not prepared to use it, a bad situation can quickly get worse. 

Creating Your Confined Space Rescue Plan

Choosing a supplier for your workplace safety equipment is a big decision, almost like hiring a new employee. Here’s what to look for in your supply partner.

Choosing a Safety Equipment Supplier

Your small business runs, in part, on the strength of your relationships. Your staff, your customers, and your colleagues make you who you are. The same is true of your relationship with your suppliers.

Non-entry rescue planning is essential for all confined space work. Here's our guide with everything you need to know to prepare to rescue workers.

Confined Space Rescue Plans: Non-Entry Rescues

When conducting a confined space rescue, choosing the fastest safe retrieval possible can make all the difference. Whether a worker has sustained an injury, is being exposed to toxic gas, or suffers an acute medical issue like a heart attack, the sooner they can be recovered, the sooner they can get medical attention.

Our confined space rescue walkthrough can help give you an example of what it’s like to act on your confined space training in a stressful, dangerous situation.

Confined Space Rescue Walkthrough: An Example | Pelsue

In this walkthrough guide, we are going to show you how you can use a davit for confined space rescue. What we do aim to achieve with this walkthrough is to give you and your crews a good sense of what it’s like to be on the ground for a rescue, to use the equipment, keep calm, and give the best help you can.

Confined Space Rescue Walkthrough

Your list of what to look for in your new portable confined space rescue equipment. Determine what system is right for you, from davit arm to LifeGuard.

Fall protection is better when it travels with you. Don’t get us wrong, there is absolutely a role for fixed or permanent fall protection systems (we, in fact, highlighted these situations in a previous post). We stand by our Permanent Base Davit System, but many circumstances demand more.

How to Choose Portable Confined Space Rescue Equipment

A safe, CSA certified tent heater for your work tent is a must for outdoor work in the cold winter months. Here’s 4 reasons why a consumer model may be dangerous.

4 Safety Features You Need in a Work Tent Heater

For safety reasons, it’s better to choose a CSA certified work tent heater than a consumer model. Spend any amount of time working in the cold, and you soon understand the value of a dependable work tent heater. Working outdoors in bad weather can be uncomfortable, distracting, and even unsafe, so keeping a tent heater on hand is a natural choice for work crews everywhere. 

What is a confined space and what makes it dangerous? To ensure confined space safety, it’s important to know the basic definition of a confined space.

What is a Confined Space? | Pelsue

The time to learn about confined spaces is well before you find yourself descending through a manhole.

What is a Confined Space?

Davit arm systems are vital to fall protection when completing tasks at heights or in confined spaces. Read our guide to learn how davit arms keep workers safe.

Davit Arm Systems Guide | Confined Space Protection

Worker safety is paramount when it comes to employing fall protection and confined space entry or rescue equipment on a job site.

Davit Arm System Guide

Confined space safety tips are designed to be digestible for every worker and confined space entrant. Hang our guide on your wall and create a culture of safety.

Confined Space Safety Tips | 9 Worker Safety Essentials

In the world of worker safety, confined space operations present unique and serious hazards. Pelsue has worked to make confined spaces safer for workers for over half a century. In that time, we’ve learned some essential confined space safety tips.

A davit system is essential to confined space fall arrest and rescue & retrieval. Our davits keep construction, industrial, and maintenance & repair workers safe on the job.

Davit for Confined Spaces: Learn About Davit Systems

At Pelsue, we are proud to produce Davits for confined spaces which are found on many job sites whether construction, industrial, or repair and maintenance. We take fall protection seriously with an unchallenged commitment to manufacturing only quality equipment to ensure customer and worker safety.

Mistakes are going to happen in the workplace. Employers need to take these steps to protect workers from these hazards.

General Safety Mistakes | Here’s How to Protect Your Workers

Workplace safety has come a long way since the early nineteenth century when laborers were exposed to a variety of risks ranging from animals to steam engines. Despite advances in technology, the industrial revolution did little to change things for the better when it came to safety practices. Instead, production methods became even more dangerous because of labor-saving machines and processes that probably wouldn’t cut it these days.

What Pelsue’s Authorized Winnebago Dealership Means for You

At Pelsue, we are proud to be an authorized dealer of Winnebago’s Commercial Shells, representing a brand renowned for its quality and innovation in specialty vehicle chassis. Our commitment to meeting the diverse needs of our customers drives us to offer a variety of customizable options that prioritize efficiency, flexibility, and durability.

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