HOUSTON (Dec. 8, 2020) -- Pure Safety Group (PSG), the world’s largest independent height safety product development, manufacturing and training company, has hired Dale Bartelson as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Bartelson will oversee sales, business development, training, customer service and commercial marketing for PSG in North America and Latin America.

Bartelson has close to 20 years of experience in the industrial and safety markets. Prior to joining Pure Safety, he held a variety of sales and channel leadership positions at 3M, including national sales manager for the corporation’s Industrial and Safety Markets Center. His experience also includes developing Fastenal’s safety portfolio, before taking on director-level positions at GOJO and Capital Safety, the fall protection company that was acquired by 3M in 2015. Bartelson holds an undergraduate degree from Winona State University and an MBA from the University of St Thomas.

Second alliance announced this month as PSG strategic alliance strategy grows globally

HOUSTON, TX (Nov. 23, 2020) – Global fall protection company Pure Safety Group (PSG) announced today a multi-faceted engagement with the British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF), the Safety and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) association in the UK.

As part of the partnership, PSG will become a member of BSIF, and PSG CEO Jeff Ward will join the organization’s board of directors. In addition, PSG training director Phil Rashbrook, with 13 years of experience teaching fall safety techniques, will join the BSIF working group dedicated to enhancing safety for workers at height, which is led by BSIF CEO Alan Murray.

HOUSTON, TX (Nov. 9, 2020 – Leaders at fall protection company Pure Safety Group (PSG) and HSE Global Series, the UK-based safety focused education and networking association, announced today that the organizations have formed a new exclusive partnership to educate companies and their employees on fall protection to reduce the risks of working at height. The agreement is effective immediately, through the end of 2021.

PSG and HSE Global will kick off their partnership at the HSE Global North American Congress, happening virtually now, Nov. 9-10. In 2021, PSG will play a major role on the topic of fall protection at two more HSE Global congresses, held in the UK. At the events and throughout the year, PSG will be an ongoing educational resource for advancements in fall protection equipment innovation, dropped objects risk mitigation, and height safety and rescue training.

HOUSTON(Sept. 23, 2020) Pure Safety Group (PSG), the world’s largest independent height safety product development, manufacturing and training company, today announced it has named Jeff Ward as chief executive officer. Previously, Ward was president of the company’s international operations. He has spent the last 20 years in various marketing, sales, operations, and general management roles within premium industrial and consumer goods companies. Prior to joining PSG, Ward was CEO of Centurion Safety Products and director of the British Safety Industry Federation. He holds an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Warwick Business School from the University of Warwick in the U.K. Ward assumes the role of CEO effective immediately and will lead PSG’s global team of fall protection experts.

Matt Moreau named head of ISEA dropped objects committee,

Faber named vice chair of ANSI anchorage connectors committee

HOUSTON, TX (AUGUST 11, 2020) – Mathew Moreau, product manager of dropped tools and FME at Pure Safety Group (PSG), has been named chairperson of the International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) Standards Committee for Dropped Objects Solutions. The committee is the first ever to focus exclusively on preventing dropped object hazards in general industry, construction and other sectors that involve work at height. In 2018, the committee set the first U.S. standard to establish design, testing and performance criteria for active systems used to prevent dropped objects in the workplace. Dropped objects cause 278 deaths and 52,700 injuries a year in the U.S. alone, according to the latest statistics, making it the third-leading occupational safety hazard.

HOUSTON, TX (June 18, 2020) – Fall protection leader Pure Safety Group (PSG) named Randy Fernandez as head of sales for PSG’s western region of the U.S., which now encompasses Louisiana and Texas, effective June 1, 2020. In this leadership role, Fernandez will be a primary resource for companies using fall protection equipment in the region. He will manage a team of eight fall protection experts, working with businesses to understand their fall protection, dropped objects prevention, and confined space and rescue needs as well as advising on proper equipment and training for a thorough and effective safety program.

HOUSTON, TX (June 18, 2020) -- Pure Safety Group, the world’s only company dedicated exclusively to fall protection for workers at height, introduces the Guardian Retractable HLL (horizontal lifeline). Available July 8 in North America, the HLL is for use in either fall arrest or fall restraint applications.

During a fall, the Retractable HLL will deploy an extending metal energy absorber designed to reduce peak loads to anchorage structures.

The new Retractable HLL can also be used as part of a fall restraint system, which prevents the worker from reaching the leading edge of a fall hazard.