Date: 10 December 2021 (Friday)
Time:  8:00 pm–9:00 pm (Webinar link will be provided to access at 7:30 pm)
Venue: Online with Zoom
Language: Cantonese

Speaker:  Mr. Tommy Chan 
Senior Construction Safety Advisor of MTR Corporation Limited 
Member of Temporary Work Forum

Mr. Chan has been working as a safety practitioner in both contractors and client for over 15 years and he is currently working in extension projects of Capital Works Business Unit. He is representing Temporary Works Forum (TWf) to deliver the webinar. TWf promulgates to learn from the lessons and improve the construction practice to avoid tragic incident from happening.  It’s objective is a zero-accident construction industry. 

Abstract :
The speaker will share one of TWf’s publications on ‘Lifelines and Anchorage Systems’ while a lot of efforts were spent on training and briefing to promote a safe working practice in fall from height protection, e.g. clip on as the last resort of protection when working at height. These efforts may be made worthless if the anchor point turns out could not save a worker from danger. 
 
An anchor point  has to be designed, properly installed and tested. This is always the case in the permanent fall protection system using the proper lanyard with shock absorber. What if the lanyard is of the type, which could not minimise the impact in a fall, would this overload the system? The situation may be even worse; when it is a temporary system. 
 
Another aspect of fall protection, which was occasionally ignored if not overlooked, is the fall clearance. Insufficient fall clearance would have the worker hit the ground before the fall arrest system is engaged. Is there any alternative other than the lanyard? 
 
In this webinar, the speaker will briefly go through 
•	Fall arrest force 
•	Vertical life line and effect of rope knot 
•	Permanent and temporary anchor 
•	Temporary fall arrest and restraint system