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The presentation is from Mark SuttonFor
SAFEHANDS Health Safety Consultants Ltd
  • A Free Resource From www.safetyphoto.co.uk

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Working at HeightHow to comply with the new
Regulations
  • Mark Sutton
  • For SAFEHANDS Health Safety Consultants Ltd

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Why introduce these New Regulations?
  • Biggest Killer 67 Fatal Accidents 2003/04
  • 3884 Major Accidents 2003/04
  • The single biggest cause of Workplace Deaths
  • One of the biggest causes of major accidents
  • 2/3 of all major injuries caused by low falls

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Why are these rules important?
  • These regulations have been made to prevent the
    Deaths and Injuries caused each year by falls at
    work
  • They REPLACE all the earlier regulations about
    working at height and implement European Council
    Directive 2001/45/EC concerning safety and health
    for use of equipment for work at height (the
    Temporary Work at Height Directive).

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What is Work at Height?Regulation 2
  • Explains for the purposes of the Regulations,
    certain words and phrases that will crop up
    throughout the document which unless defined
    could be interpreted differently from one
    industry to another.
  • Work at Height
  • Work in any place, including a place in
  • the course of obtaining access to or egress from
    any place except by a staircase in a permanent
    workplace or
  • At or below ground level from which a person
    could fall a distance liable to cause personal
    injury and any reference to working at height
    will include access to or egress from such places
    whilst at work.

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  • Working at height
  • Working on a scaffold or MEWP
  • Working on the back of a lorry
  • Using cradles or ropes to gain access
  • Climbing permanent structures such as gantries
  • Working close to excavations, cellars or other
    openings.
  • Staging or trestles (concerts filming etc)
  • Not working at height
  • Activities carried out by private individuals
    (even if the equipment used is from work). Trips
    and slips on the level surface
  • Falls on permanent stairways (unless under
    structural maintenance)
  • Working in a building (e.g. office) with multiple
    floors where there is no risk of falling (except
    if the staff use a stepladder to change the bulbs
    within the office)

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  • Access and egress
  • Working Platform
  • Includes ascent and descent
  • Any platform used as a place of work, or as a
    means of access to or egress from a place of
    work.
  • Any scaffold, suspended scaffold, cradle, mobile
    platform, trestle, gangway, gantry or stairway
    which is so used
  • But does not include a building or other
  • permanent structure

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  • Work equipment
  • Ladder
  • Line
  • Any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or
    installation for use at work and includes
    anything to which Regulation 8 and schedules 2 to
    6 of the WAHR apply.
  • Includes a fixed ladder and a step ladder
  • Includes rope, chain or webbing

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  • Every employer shall ensure that no person
    engages in activity, including organisation,
    planning or supervision, in relation to work at
    height or work equipment for use in such work
    unless he is competent to do so or, if being
    trained, is being supervised by a competent
    person
  • A fall prevention, work restraint, work
    positioning, fall arrest or rescue system other
    than a system in which the only safeguards are
    collective safeguards or
  • Rope access and positioning techniques.
  • (terminology adopted from BS 79852002 Code of
    Practice for the use of rope access methods for
    industrial purposes)
  • A surface which would be liable to fail if any
    reasonably foreseeable loading were to be applied
    to it
  • Competence
  • Personal fall protection
  • Fragile surface

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What do the Schedules to the regulations cover?
  • Schedule 1
  • Existing places of work and means of access for
    work at height
  • Schedule 2
  • Collective fall prevention (e.g. guard rails and
    toe boards)
  • Schedule 3
  • Working platforms
  • Schedule 4
  • Collective fall arrest (e.g. nets, airbags etc)
  • Schedule 5
  • Personal fall protection
  • Schedule 6
  • Ladders and step ladders
  • Schedule 7
  • Inspection reports
  • Schedule 8
  • Revocations (cancellations, dissolution)

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Do the Rules apply to you?
  • The Regulations apply to all work at height where
    there is a risk of a fall liable to cause
    personal injury. They place duties on employers,
    the self-employed, and any person who controls
    the work of others.
  • If you are an employee or working under someone
    else's control, regulation 14 says you must
  • Report any safety hazard to them.
  • Use the equipment supplied (including safety
    devices) properly, following any training and
    instructions (unless you think that would be
    unsafe, in which case you should seek further
    instructions before continuing).

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What you must do if you as an Employer
  • Duty holders must
  • Avoid work at height where they can
  • Use work equipment or other measures to prevent
    falls where they cannot avoid working at height
    and
  • Where they cannot eliminate the risk of a fall,
    use work equipment or other measures to minimise
    the distance and consequences of a fall should
    one occur

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Duty Holders Responsibilities
  • The regulations require
  • All work at height is properly planned
    organised
  • All work at height takes account of weather
    conditions that could endanger health safety
  • Those involved in work at height are trained and
    competent
  • The place where work at height is done is safe
  • Equipment for work at height is appropriately
    inspected and controlled
  • The risks from fragile surfaces are properly
    controlled and
  • The risk from falling objects are properly
    controlled.
  • Just remember a risk assessment is to be written
    to control the hazards.

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Do the Work at Height Regulations ban the use of
Ladders?
  • Short answer for that is NO!
  • But they require that ladders should only be
    considered where a risk assessment has shown that
    the use of other more suitable work equipment is
    not appropriate because of the low risk, and
    short duration of the task or consideration of
    where the work is located

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A few Correct ways of Working at Height
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Why is this correct?
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Again
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A piece of Equipment that can be used
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Bosuns Chair
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  • Any Questions?
  • If you are unsure about anything now, it will be
    far to late to come and ask me when you are 30ft
    up or 30ft below the surface and you don't have a
    Harness
  • Remember
  • There is no such thing as a stupid or daft
    Health and Safety Question!

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The presentation is from Mark SuttonFor
SAFEHANDS Health Safety Consultants Ltd
  • A Free Resource From www.safetyphoto.co.uk
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