Basic Qualification · B-003 Station assembly, practice and safety · B-003-020-005
Why should you wear approved fall arrest equipment if you are working on an antenna tower?
- ATo bring any tools you might use up and down the tower safely
- BTo keep the tower from becoming unstable while you are working
- CTo hold your tools so they don't fall and injure someone on the ground
- DTo limit injuries if you fall
Correct answer: D — To limit injuries if you fall. From the official ISED question bank, verified word for word.
Why
Approved fall arrest equipment, such as a harness and lanyard, is designed to catch you if you slip, stopping your fall before you hit the ground and thereby limiting serious injury or death. The full explanation — and one for every question — is in Pro.
Practise this section
Station assembly, practice and safety is section B-003 of the Basic exam: Building a station safely: power supplies, grounding, RF exposure, lightning, feedline routing, and what a transmitter, receiver and transceiver actually do.
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