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ANSI Z359

Last updated: July 29, 2018

What Does ANSI Z359 Mean?

ANSI Z359 is a safety document containing American National Standard Safety requirements for personal fall arrest systems, subsystems and components.

Safeopedia Explains ANSI Z359

ANSI Z359 is a benchmark of standards that is used in general industry as a fall protection standard. This standard has been incorporated in many industrial fall protection programs. In 1999, five new standards of fall protection were released.

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