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it has to be tied after thirty feet. I cannot
accept this because it signifies that a
connector falls from twenty-eight feet it will
rebound, it will do something or nothing will
happen. I don’t believe--if it falls from
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twenty-eight feet or twenty-nine feet there can
be a death easily.
Thus, I know it is difficult with a steel
structure, it is difficult to move within the
beams, a certain liberty of movement is
required. But that moment is restricted to
forty, fifty feet, why not at fifteen, why not
at twenty. That was one of my concerns
regarding this. And another thing is that a
student when I give class in the Inter-American
University and at Mayaguez, I see that many
timnes the student asks why there are so many
measures for the protection against falls.
Four feet with two plataforms, six feet with
double E, that the construction surface, ten
feet with the scaffolding, fifteen feet, right
foot as I just said, the connectors. These
measures and these things is fall protection.
It is a protection against falls, why are we