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American National Standards Institute / American Society of Safety Engineers standard ANSI Z359. 1-2007 Safety Requirement for Personal Fall Arrest Systems, Subsystems and Components, section 3. 2. 1. 4 ( for snap hooks and carabiners ) is a voluntary consensus standard.

This standard requires that all connectors / carabiners support a minimum breaking strength ( MBS ) of and feature an auto-locking gate mechanism which supports a minimum breaking strength ( MBS ) of.