Acrophobia: Managing Fear of Heights in Tower Climbing Acrophobia is an intense or irrational fear of heights. It falls under the category of specific phobias in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), classified as a “natural environment type” phobia. It’s one of the most common fears, and
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By Kathy Gill & Jeffrey Zientek Between 2011 and 2018, there were a reported 1,030 confined space deaths according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). That averaged out to about 100 deaths per year. It’s difficult to obtain accurate statistics for the period between 2019 and 2025 without extensive
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The Force that Holds Us Back Over five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was the first person to study friction systematically. Da Vinci’s main result is still used today by many engineers: Friction is proportional to the normal force. When two objects are pressed together twice as hard, the friction also
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Understanding how Forces Work in Lifting and Hauling Why do all waterfalls flow downward? Gravity Why does a ball return to the ground after we throw it upward? Gravity Forces are fundamental and ever-present throughout the universe. Everyday actions—walking, writing, driving, eating, reading, and speaking—all involve the application of force.
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More Than a Manual: Making Safety Training a Lifestyle When Kathy Gill founded Tower Safety® in 2013, it was less of a business decision and more of a mission. “I left the course frustrated and confused,” she recalled about her inadequate training experience. That moment pushed her to launch a
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Hazwoper Training Tower Safety provides Hazwhoper training with expert hazmat trainer Jeff Zientek. HAZWOPER training applies to workers and employers involved in five specific types of operations outlined in OSHA’s HAZWOPER standard: Cleanup operations required by a governmental body (federal, state, local or other) involving hazardous substances and conducted at
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Rigging with a Carabiner the ANSI 10.48 Rigging is a dynamic artform; assembling and securing ways to control and support a load is vital on any lift, whether it be a live person or a radio, antenna, tool bags, etc. However, the hardware we use for attachment to the load
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She’s a Killer Queen It’s that time of the year when bees love the heat and start to build larger hives. Bees create their nests behind sidings and bricks, concrete blocks, eaves, tress, under sheds and outbuildings. In the 1990’s the Africanized “killer bee” arrived in the US, and many
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Ronin Rescue Podcast #72 with Kathy Gill_Tower Safety Ronin RescueCast · RescueCast 72 – Kathy Gill And Tower Safety
Click for more →https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-22-46A1.pdf Media Contact: Paloma Perez Paloma.Perez@fcc.gov For Immediate Release FCC, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, AND NTIA ANNOUNCE MEMBERS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS WORKFORCE WORKING GROUP– WASHINGTON, January 14, 2022—The Federal Communications Commission alongside the Department of Labor, Department of Education, and NTIA today announced the members of a cross-agency
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Inside Towers online roper Installation of an AF Safety Climb During the Tower Rodeo Challenge, two teams stood against each other to install an Allfasteners Safety Climb at 25’. One team took their time and managed to safely and successfully complete the challenge while the other team rushed their
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“Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.” Archimedes ANSI 10.48 Qualified Person- One who can develop rigging plans and who has successfully demonstrated the ability to coordinate construction related to the wireless industry. Class III rigging says the
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A record heat wave sent temperatures soaring in Arizona and other parts of the West and Southwest – Reuters.com Heat wave in West enters Day 6 … – NBC News Record-breaking June 2021 heatwave impacts the U.S. West… Climate.gov In the late 1990s, Kathy Gill, President and Owner at Tower Safety, was installing fiber optic cable in Phoenix
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While most towercos and carriers train for potential rescues from towers, the increase in usage of mobile platforms (MEWPS) has increased dramatically, particularly for monopoles, water tanks and lower level tower work. Unfortunately, accidents involving those assets have been on the increase as well, according to Tower Safety ™ CEO Kathy
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Kathy Gill has telecom in her blood. She is the second generation of her family to work in the business and got her start at 18 years old. Years later, Gill started a wireless construction company and noticed many climbers had insufficient training. “I was compelled to change that and
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First US tower climbing competition, hosted by Tower Safety. JANUARY 20 2021 Many industries and trades have annual competitions to highlight the speed and skill of workers: lineman, masonry, rope access, tree climbing and more. During a warm December weekend the first tower competition, TRx Challenge, was held in Phoenix,
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Use of boom lifts has become a common practice in the tower industry for providing quick and, seemingly, safe access to monopoles and low level work on free standing towers. Kathy Gill of Tower Safety and Rescue cautions that not understanding what the rigging capacity is for a given truck, and not
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Mind your Prusik!!!! The Prusik hitch has been around since 1931 when Dr. Karl Prusik created it while mountaineering in Austria. It is a hitch secured to a tight line and will slide when not weighted on a tight rope but jams solidly upon loading. It is recommended to
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It has been 20 years since a devastating loss of a husband, step-son and employee were killed when a capstan hoist operated by the wife when ropes overturned on the drum as the men were being lifted on the load line, causing a catastrophic failure of human lives. (https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/in-house/full200007.html) This
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