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    Z359.6 load combinations for active fall protection systems

    Safe work procedures would not allow someone to work outdoors during a design-level wind event. And if a person is working indoors, wind would have no effect. And sure, maybe the design earthquake would cause a fall, but the odds of that and simultaneous peak effects have got to be minuscule.
  2. Dave Evans

    Z359.6 load combinations for active fall protection systems

    Z359.6-2016 lists these load combinations for fall protection systems (simplified a bit for clarity): (1) 1.4D <--ok (2) 1.2D + 1.6A + 0.5L <--ok (3) 1.2D + 1.1(A + L) <--huh? 1.1? (4) 1.2D + 1.1A + 0.5L + (1.0W or 1.0E) <--WOW. Full W or E. where A = the fall arrest force, and the others...

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