Roofing is the 4th deadliest job in the USA. That's largely because the current safety gear, fall arrest harnesses, are rarely worn. Enter Free Fall, the tool harness that unobtrusively carries your tools. That is, until you fall. Accelerometer-triggered airbags inflate in the event of a fall, cushioning landing impact to 1% of what will hit you if you fall without the harness.
If a worker falls, airbags inflate, cushioning the head, back, shoulders, tailbone, chest, and hips, reducing the 1000 G deceleration that hits a worker landing on concrete to less than 10G.
Interior padding before being sewn onto the prototype harness.
To see the full design process of the Free Fall harness, including extensive primary research, market research, form development, and some physics behind the harness, please visit the process page at
