OSHA COMPLIANCE & TECHNICAL GUIDANCE
What a Proper OSHA Fall Hazard Assessment Covers
Before anyone works at height, the hazards need to be identified. Here's what a thorough assessment actually looks like.
What Gets Evaluated Before Work Begins
A fall hazard assessment is the step that happens before the inspection cycle even starts — it's how you find out what's actually on your roof and where the risks are, before anyone clips into a system. That includes evaluating anchor condition and attachment strength, checking that personal fall protection anchors are properly independent from suspension anchors, and identifying anything — legacy equipment, deteriorated points, undocumented anchorages — that needs attention before work at height begins.
Our fall protection assessments cover exactly this ground: comprehensive anchor evaluation, rigorous testing where needed, and documentation that doubles as your compliance record. It's independent, third-party verification — which matters, because self-certifying your own risk isn't the same as having someone whose only job is finding what you might have missed. Once the assessment identifies what's there, inspection and certification are how you keep it compliant going forward.
QUICK FACTS
- Identifies fall risks before rope descent or suspended access work begins
- Covers anchor condition, attachment security, and system independence
- Results in a documented compliance report, not just a walkthrough
- Complements — doesn't replace — the annual anchor inspection cycle
- Conducted by a qualified, third-party assessor for unbiased results
Know What's on Your Roof Before Anyone Works at Height
A hazard assessment is the step most buildings skip — and the one that catches problems before they become incidents. Let's find out what's actually on your roof.
Our Nationwide Rooftop Safety Services
Our Professional Affiliations
Expert Summit Anchors holds active affiliations with the organizations that set the bar for our industry. We're members of the Power Washing North America (PWNA) and International Window Cleaning Association (IWCA), and our technicians work to SPRAT and IRATA rope access certification standards. Every inspection we perform is held to ANSI and OSHA standards for fall protection and rooftop safety.
We're also proud to work alongside our affiliate companies — Expert Safety Services, delivering hands-on safety training nationwide, and Expert Safety Advocate, helping businesses stay ahead of OSHA compliance year-round. Together, this network means Expert Summit Anchors isn't operating in isolation — we're backed by a full ecosystem built around getting safety right.
30+ Years of Keeping People Safe at Height — OSHA Compliant, By Standard
Michael Draper has spent over three decades working at height — and that experience shapes everything about how Expert Summit Anchors operates. For Michael, safety isn't a checkbox on an inspection form or a line item toward OSHA compliance. It's what makes a job site somewhere people actually make it home from at the end of the day.
Every inspection we perform is held to OSHA's fall protection standards — that's the floor, not the finish line. It's the standard our whole team works to, on every roof, every time.
