Improving Railcar Fall Prevention With Minimal Downtime The Problem: A Need For Strengthened Rail Car Fall Prevention Under Tight Time Constraints In order to keep its workers safe and maintain its OSHA Voluntary Protection Program STAR certification status, the company needed to strengthen its rail car fall prevention mechanisms. Many of its loading and unloading stations had been designed in the 1970s and were aging mazes of catwalks, process piping, loading arms, work stations, skids, hoses and access platforms. This overcrowded loading environment posed numerous risks to worker safety. Additionally, the manufacturer could not simply shut down the facility until a safer solution had been implemented. Customer commitments dictated that the loading area could only be shut down for a half

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