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Part 1 – Working in the IndustryPart 1 – Working in the IndustryPart 2 – Personal Safety & HealthPart 2 – Personal Safety & HealthPart 3 – Tools & EquipmentPart 3 – Tools & EquipmentPart 4a – Manual HandlingPart 4a – Manual HandlingPart 4b – Mechanical HandlingPart 4b – Mechanical HandlingPart 5 – Working Places and Safe AccessPart 5 – Working Places and Safe AccessPart 6a – Working Safely - GeneralPart 6a – Working Safely - GeneralPart 6b – Working Safely - Specific AreasPart 6b – Working Safely - Specific AreasPart 6c – Working Safely - Other situationsPart 6c – Working Safely - Other situationsPart 7 – First AidPart 7 – First AidPart 8 – Environmental ProtectionPart 8 – Environmental ProtectionPart 9 – Legal ObligationsPart 9 – Legal ObligationsPart 10 – Accident Reporting and RecordingPart 10 – Accident Reporting and Recording

• Regulations require a safe means of access to be provided and maintained to any place of work.

• Guards or other effective means are required where a person could fall.

• Scaffolding should be regularly examined by a competent person and records kept

• Any changes to scaffolding must be carried out by a competent person

• Do not move scaffold planks from a platform to use elsewhere

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General

• All working places should have adequate lighting• Tool boxes and equipment should be lifted on to a working

platform by rope line• Any person in control of premises has a responsibility to

ensure safe access to work areas and adequate lighting.• Report all instances of poor access to your supervisor for

forwarding to LEIA.

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General

• Wherever possible work at height should be avoided by other ways of working.

• Work in the lift well will normally be on scaffolds and working platforms erected by specialist scaffolders.

• When in use, scaffolds should be regularly examined, at least every 7 days by a competent person and records kept.

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Work at Height

• If a scaffold tube has to be removed for your work, it must only be done by a competent scaffolder.

• Do not move scaffold planks to use elsewhere. Ensure that there is enough scaffold material on site.

• If the work is not easily accessible, the working platform should be repositioned by a competent scaffolder.

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Work at Height

Voids during installation

• Guardrails should be fitted, at least 950mm high, where there is a risk of falling. Where guardrails, toeboards or barriers are impracticable then safety nets should be provided.

• Where safety nets are not reasonably practicable the use of anchored work restraint harnesses to prevent reaching the fall hazard may be used.

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Work at Height

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