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Ballantyne Gear is a leading designer of technical tools, methods, and training for workers on sloped roofs, including commercial and residential. One Ballantyne Gear Eveook Fall Protection System can assist and protect up to eight users.
In 2008, Flent Ballantyne incorporated Ballantyne Gear, to create a work and fall protection system for his employees on sloped roofs. OSHA was not enforcing physical fall protection for sloped roof workers, even though it was required in all other industries.
For more than a decade, Flent led a team of safety professionals from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe that created a proprietary fall protection system that took on the complexities of protecting sloped roof workers with simplistic innovation.
In 2018, Flent’s employees used the fall protection. For the next two years it was beta tested and refined prior to certification.
Major benefits of the Ballantyne Gear System include:
- Installer is protected from falls when installing the system.
- Systems installed in less than 15 minutes, truck to roof.
- Dangerous swing falls avoided.
- Workers are protected on the ladder, between the ladder and roof, and on the roof.
- Emphasis on fall restraint; however, the system is strong enough for fall arrest.
- Jobs are completed in less time.
- Roofs are not damaged from nails and screws.
In 2020, after testing at an independent ISO 17025 lab, the Ballantyne Gear Eveook Work and Fall Protection System was certified to the ANSI Z359.6 and the CSA Z259.16 standards as an engineered fall protection system for sloped roofs, also exceeding the OSHA 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13) duty to have fall protection standard and the OSHA 29 CFR 1910.140 personal fall protection standard.
Ballantyne Gear innovation continues to find new ways to improve work conditions and safety.