Joseph Barbato Associates, LLC evaluates industrial, medical, educational and other types of commercial facilities to eliminate fall hazard situations. We provide all of your fall protection needs including assessment, design, engineering, installation and recertification. Our goal is to develop pro-active loss reduction strategies to address fall hazard risks that impact your company. We offer an independent, objective perspective to your fall hazards, unbiased by fall protection manufacturers' product lines. Follow-up site visits are conducted to ensure that the installation of fall protection equipment was completed correctly and that it is operating in a safe manner year after year. All designs are in accordance with the guidelines of the United States Department of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Existing buildings are evaluated to accommodate engineered solutions for fall protection.

Some of these solutions are:

• anchor point systems
• temporary and permanent guardrails
• horizontal lifeline systems
• process equipment design modifications
• elevated work platform design
• access ladders, cages and swing gates
• skylight screens
• roof hatch guardrail design
• steel bar grating platform design
• installation of protective covers for rooftop intake/exhaust openings
• installation of visual cues on rooftops

According to OSHA General Duty Clause - Section 5(a)(2)

"...a particular safety standard is inadequate to protect his workers against (a) specific hazard... or that the condition in his place of employment are such that the safety standard will not adequately deal with the hazards to which his employees are exposed the employer must take all reasonable precautions to protect its employees. The General Duty Clause imposes an obligation to take whatever measures may be required by the Act, over and above those mandated by the safety standards, to safeguard his workers."

According to OSHA 1926.502(i)(2)

"...covers shall be capable of supporting, without failure, at least twice the weight of employees, equipment and materials that may be imposed on the cover at any one time."

According to OSHA 1923(a)(4)

"...Every skylight floor opening and hole shall be guarded by a standard skylight screen or a fixed standard failing on all exposed sides."