Ladder Safety

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

About this app

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is dedicated to ensure the safety of portable ladder users by developing and disseminating an easy-to-use interactive ladder safety application for smart phones. The NIOSH Ladder Safety application features a multimodal indicator, which uses visual, sound, and vibration signals to assist the user in positioning a ladder at an optimal angle. Furthermore, the application provides graphic-oriented interactive reference materials, safety guidelines and checklists for extension and step ladders selection, inspection, accessorizing, and use. The application is intended to help a wide range of ladder users, employers, and safety professionals, with their ladder-related safety needs. The ladder safety app is also 508 compliant.

Ratings and reviews

This was a great app. Used it as an HVAC commercial service tech 7 to 8 years ago and it worked great all tools as shown. With my current phone it will open once then each time after it stops at the NIOSH/CDC screen. Uninstall/re-install yields same result.

Incompatible with current devices (last updated 7 years ago). Phone gives a prompt to look for update but there are none

Great app! Does exactly what it's supposed to do! Complete with ladder safety guidelines for proper setup. 👌

What's new

Updated application API Level.