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Title: Work at Height


1
Health and Safety Executive
Work at Height
Robert Vaughan Falls from Height Team Stowmarket
10 December 2004
2
Summary
  • Drivers for change
  • The Work at Height Regulations
  • Where we are at the moment
  • Key messages about work at height

3
Drivers for Change
  • Statistics fall from height a major hazard
  • Existing piecemeal legislation
  • Temporary Work at Height Directive

4
Statistics
  • Biggest Killer 67 Fatal Accidents 2003/04
  • 3884 Major Accidents 2003/04
  • Until this year always 2nd biggest cause of major
    accidents
  • 2/3 of all major injuries caused by low falls
    (below 2mtrs)

5
Other Drivers for Change
  • Patchwork of existing legislation
  • Construction Health Safety Welfare
  • Workplace Health Safety and Welfare.
  • PUWER LOLER
  • Temporary Work at Height Directive (2001/45/EC)

6
Developing the Regulations
  • HSC regulatory objectives
  • Bring existing regulations together
  • Have goal setting regulations
  • Maintain existing standards
  • Draft proposals consulted on
  • 750 responses, challenging issues on
    construction and adventure activity providers

7
Where we are at the moment
  • Most draft Regulations already agreed
  • Balancing goal setting with prescription
  • Further consultation on 2mtr reference point
    completed
  • Issue of what to do about adventure activity
    workers still to resolve

8
Current shape of the Regulations
  • Old wine in new bottles (sic)
  • Organisation and planning
  • Competence
  • Risk assessment
  • Fragile surfaces/falling objects and danger areas
  • Inspection of work equipment
  • Duties on persons at work

9
What is work at height?
  • Work in any place from which a person could fall
    a distance liable to cause personal injury
  • Includes
  • access and egress
  • work at or below ground level
  • Does not include
  • stairways or slips or trips on the level

10
Which Industries are covered?
  • Covers all industries e.g. construction,
    agriculture, manufacturing, retail,
    maintenance,warehouse etc
  • Duty holders are
  • employers
  • self-employed and
  • those in control of people at work, to the extent
    of their control

11
Organisation, Planning, Competence
  • Work at height should be
  • Properly planned
  • Appropriately supervised
  • Not carried out if weather conditions jeopardise
    health and safety
  • Those working at height should be
  • competent or if being trained supervised by a
    competent person

12
Steps for safe working at height
  • Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and
    Safety at work Regulations
  • Do a risk assessment

13
Steps for safe working at height
  • Avoid work at height
  • if you dont have to go up there DONT!
  • Prevent falls
  • use an existing place or means of access
  • Use the most suitable way of working
  • Select the most suitable equipment

14
Steps for safe work at height
  • Minimise the distance and consequences
  • Minimise the consequences
  • Take other suitable measures to control the risk
    eg instruction, information and training

15
Selecting the right work equipment
  • Collective protection before personal protection
  • Working conditions
  • Access and Egress
  • Distance and consequences of a fall
  • Duration and frequency of use/task
  • Ease of rescue/evacuation
  • Risk of use, installation and removal of
    equipment

16
Work Equipment for work at height
  • Existing places of work
  • Collective prevention inc guard rails etc
  • Working platforms - MEWPS, Scaffold etc
  • Collective fall arrest airbags, nets
  • Personal Fall Protection work positioning work
    restraint/ rope access/fall arrest
  • Ladders/stepladders etc

17
Selecting work equipment
Collective
Personal
Prevent
Working Platforms
Work Restraint
Minimise
Nets/ Airbags
Rope access/ fall arrest
Ladders/stilts/hop ups
18
Examples of Work Equipment
  • .

Avoiding work at height
19
Examples of Work Equipment
  • .

Scaffolding
Edge protection
M.E.W.P
20
Examples of work equipment

Nets
Air bags
21
Examples of Work Equipment
Fall Arrest
Work Positioning
22
Other Precautions
  • Avoid risks from Fragile Surfaces
  • Prevent Falling Objects
  • Warn about Danger Areas
  • Inspect work equipment
  • Persons at work should
  • Follow instructions and training
  • Advise employer of hazards/risks to health and
    safety

23
Reassurance for some
  • Do you follow current law and good practice?
  • Do you assess risks, and properly plan and
    organise work at height?
  • Do you try to avoid prevent minimise?
  • Do you select, inspect and use the right work
    equipment for work at height?
  • Then you should be doing enough to comply with
    the draft Regulations

24
Recap
  • Falls from height are a priority for the HSC/E
  • Regulations provide a goal setting approach
  •  Risk assessment is key to planning, organising,
    and selecting equipment to carry out the work
  • Follow the hierarchy of
  • AVOID
  • PREVENT
  • MITIGATE
  • If you already carry out a risk assessment for
    work at height and take steps to manage these
    risks then you are most of the way there

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FURTHER INFORMATION
  • Robert Vaughan
  • Falls from Height Team
  • Health and Safety Executive
  • Tel 020 7717 6991
  • Email robert.vaughan_at_hse.gsi.gov.uk
  • http//www.hse.gov.uk/falls/index.htm
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