SafeWaze Shock-Absorbing Lanyard

The SafeWaze shock absorbing lanyard connects your full-body harness to the anchor point in a bucket truck or aerial lift. If you are thrown from the platform, the energy-absorbing pack deploys and limits the force that reaches your body.

Why the bucket needs a lanyard

A bucket truck feels solid until the boom gets bumped by a falling limb, a rope loads unexpectedly, or the truck shifts on soft ground. A short catapult is all it takes to throw an operator out of the bucket. A shock-absorbing lanyard clipped to the manufacturer's anchor point keeps you with the machine.

Clip to the anchor on the boom or platform, not to the bucket lip or a hydraulic line, and keep the lanyard as short as your work allows. Browse our fall arrest gear for aerial lifts for harnesses and other lanyards.

Most aerial lift lanyards are short so the operator stays inside the platform. Pick a length that lets you reach your work without slack piling up on the floor of the bucket, where it can snag your boots.

Inspection and retirement

Check the lanyard before every shift. Look at the webbing for cuts, burns, chemical damage, and stiff or glazed spots. Make sure the shock pack cover is intact and has not started to deploy, and that each snap hook opens, closes, and locks cleanly.

Any lanyard that has arrested a fall comes out of service for good. Follow the SafeWaze instructions, your employer's fall protection program, and ANSI Z133 for work in aerial devices, and make sure everyone in the bucket is trained on the gear they wear.

Store the lanyard dry, out of sunlight, and away from fuel, oil, and saw chains. Keep it with your harness rather than loose in the truck bin, so it doesn't get crushed under rigging gear.