Health and Safety Manual Section F9 Working at Height

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Health and Safety Manual Section F9 Working at
Height
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Height

• A place from which a person may fall and be
  injured, even if at or below ground level.
• Includes
• roofs, bridges and other elevated structures
• ladders, stepladders, platforms, scaffolds, etc
• ground level, next to an excavation
• work near to fragile materials
• erecting scaffolding

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Standards

• Risk assessment needed, covering
• The work activity
• Work equipment to be used
• Duration of the work
• Location of the work
• Specific hazards power lines, services,
  excavations, height above 2 metres

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Standards

• Environment weather, lighting, etc.
• Condition and stability of existing work
  surfaces, flooring, steps, slopes
• The physical capability of the workers health,
  fitness, pregnancy, vertigo, etc.
• All stages of the work inc. installing, using,
  dismantling, potential rescue, etc.
• Training needs.

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Risk Controls

• Proper planning
• Competent people
• Appropriate work equipment
• Avoiding work at height
• Collective fall prevention
• Collective fall arrest
• Personal fall protection

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Ladders

• 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
• low risk
• short duration
• light work
• considerations of where the work is located
• a ladder register must be maintained