Your May 18 letter to Mr. Jim Knorpp, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Area Director for Fort Worth, was forwarded to this office for response. I apologize for the delay in replying to your inquiry as to OSHA's interpretations of the terms certified and qualified as used in ANSI standards for aerial lifts.
Whether it's the Indianapolis 500 or a race at a local dirt track, pole position is exactly where every race car driver wants to be. The term comes from horse racing, where the number one horse starts on the inside of the first row next to the inside pole. In car racing, a driver in pole position â called the pole sitter â starts the race in the first row in the inside lane. The pole sitter starts the race at the front of the pack and doesn't have to fight his or her way through traffic to get to first place.
Pole vault is a track and field event in which each competitor uses a long, flexible pole, made of either fiberglass or carbon fiber, with the purpose of vaulting over a bar that is set at a specific height. Each athlete chooses his/her height that they wish to be entered for in competitions.