| Regulation standards of work at height : Fall from height stands for the 2d fatal accident causes, right after car crashes. This risk of fall, characterized by a high seriousness rate, is existing while working at height or close to high difference in level.
New laws concerning protective equipments at user’s disposal and used to carry out work at height have entered into force in the Labour Law regulation, allowing the adaptation of the European Directive 2001/45/CE dated from 27 june 2006 and the Decree 2004-924 which deals with the minimum safety and health working limitations for the use of these protective equipments. These new general law aspects apply for all companies submitted to the Labour Law regulation and target each of the employees, as well as independant workers and employers standing in working onsite. Protection against fall from heights must be taken prior to exercising the activity and must always emphasize first the collective safety with a previous risk examination.
Individual protection : The use of individual safety must be restricted to interventions which do not allow any collective safety means to be taken. Only people having attended training are authorised to use these Personal Protective equipments.
Individual protection against fall from height arises the distinctive feature to gather three indissociable factors without which the protection would be totally unefficient and useless: - Anchorage point
- Fall arrester connection
- Body prehensility
The last two factors are part of the European Directive 89/686/CE dealing with Personal Protective Equipment. To be launched on the market, the CE marks showing that the product meet the requirement of the PPE directive must be notified. The anchorage point is defined into the European standard EN 795 | 
