We all know the importance of protecting an employee working at heights; we routinely use PPE such as full body harnesses, self-retracting lifelines (SRLs) and lanyards for fall protection to prevent ...

We know “what goes up must come down.” But WHY? "Drop" in to find out! We know “what goes up must come down.” But WHY? Drop in to learn about the gravitational forces like acceleration and air ...

Take a pencil, stretch out your arm, and let go. We all know that the pencil will fall. OK, but what about dropping a bowling ball? Is that the same thing? No wait! How about a watermelon dropped off ...

It’s been demonstrated since the 1500s that, when falling toward a certain body, objects fall at the same rate. Everyone from Galileo in Pisa to David Scott on the moon demonstrated that. But what if ...

For all objects at height – including humans – the focus always should be on preventing things from falling rather than on catching objects, or on limiting the damage after they fall. Dropped objects ...

Since the Court of Appeals rendered its majority ruling in 'Fabrizi', the court has not had occasion to further explain what it meant by the phrase “secured for the purposes of the undertaking” in ...

Our motion perception is remarkably well tuned to detect small changes in speed and direction. For example, soccer goalkeepers need to precisely judge the speed, direction, and curvature of an ...