Duties and Responsibilities
The Competent Person
The responsibilities of a competent person include the following:
- Serving as the monitor in a safety-monitoring system and recognizing hazards that cause falls and warning workers about them.
- Determining that safety nets meet minimum requirements.
- Evaluating alterations to fall-protection systems and determining if the systems are safe to use.
- Ensuring personal fall-arrest systems are removed from service after they arrest a fall, and determining if the systems are undamaged and suitable for reuse.
- Determining if fall-arrest systems are undamaged and suitable for reuse. Note: For the maritime industry, this responsibility is assigned to qualified persons.
- Training employees to recognize hazards that cause falls and follow procedures that minimize fall hazards.
- Evaluating employees to ensure they have adequate knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) to properly use fall protection systems.
The Qualified Person
The responsibilities of a qualified person include the following:
- Supervising the design, installation, and use of horizontal lifeline systems to ensure that they can maintain a safety factor of at least two (twice the impact of a worker free-falling 6 feet).
- Supervising the design, installation, and use of personal fall-arrest and fall-restraint anchorages.
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2-4. Which of the following responsibilities is assigned to a qualified person?
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