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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Engineering Volume 2013, Article ID 239746, 5 pages /10.1155/2013/239746 Research Article A Fall Protection System for High-Rise Construction Haluk 脟e莽en1 and Beg眉m SertyeGilJGJk2,3 1 藱 Division of Construction Management, Department of Civil Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Esenler, 34220 Istanbul, Turkey 2 Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 2AJ, UK 3 Department of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University, Tas赂k砗赂la Taksim, 34437 Istanbul, Turkey 篓 Correspondence should be addressed to Begum Sertyes赂il谋s赂谋k; b.sertyesilisik@ljmu.ac.uk Received 6 December 2012; Accepted 17 February 2013 Academic Editor: Brian Uy Copyright 漏 2013 H. C赂 ec赂en and B. Sertyes赂il谋s赂谋k. his is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In construction industry, the number of fatal and nonfatal occupational injuries is higher than other industries. Among causes of these accidents, 鈥渇alls鈥 play a key role. his situation reveals the importance for carrying out research in fall protection systems. In this paper, a practical, economical, and functional fall protection system is introduced. Following determination and evaluation of existing solutions, weekly brainstorming meetings were held among the responsible project staf (general coordinator, project coordinator, project manager, site manager, and health and safety manager). As a result of these meetings, design criteria were developed.