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Some key issues of the Work at Height Regulations
and what we need to consider.
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Construction – Fatal Accidents
Machinery 2.1%
Struck By 13.3%
Trip 0.3%
Transport 11.1%
Handling 0.5%Collapse 10.3%
Substance 0.3%
Electricity 5.8%
Walk Into 0.3%
Other 4.2%
High Fall 47.5%
Other Fall 4.2%
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A Look Back
Total Deaths in % Change in a Decade UK Construction
1953 2481963 247 0% Factories Act & Construction Regs1973 231 6%1983 118 49% HASW Act 19741993 91 22%2003 70 22% CDM 19942013 ?? ?? Work@Height Regs
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The Working at Height Regulations 2005
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What is Work at Height?
Any workplace at height; at, above or below ground level where persons could be injured if they were to fall
Could also be access (entry) and egress (exit) to that place
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What is Work at Height?
Erecting false/formwork
Working from ladders
Working on formwork within an excavation
Working adjacent to open excavations
Working from bandstands
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What is NOT Work at Height?
Walking up/down stairs
Working in upper floors of offices or cabins
Machine operators, in their seats
Sitting in a chair
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Who Needs to Comply?
• Employers
• Self Employed
• Employees
• Controllers of the way Work at Height is undertaken (Principal Contractors,
Clients, Contractors)
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Key Points
Work at Height – Hierarchy
Avoid
Prevent
Reduce
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Key Points
Select correct work equipment
Select collective fall prevention measures (Work platforms, guardrails)
Collective distance mitigation (Airbags, nets)
Personal distance mitigation (Fall restraint, arrest)
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What do the Regs Require?
Plan and organise all work at height
Personnel working at height to be “competent”
Assess risks from working at height
Select and use appropriate work equipment
Control risks from fragile surfaces
Inspect and maintain equipment used in work at height
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Planned?
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PLANNED/RIGHT EQUIPMENT/COMPETENT ?
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PLANNED/RIGHT EQUIPMENT/COMPETENT ?
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What Causes Accidents?
Over 60% of fatal accidents are attributable, to some extent, to decisions taken before starting
35% design
28% planning
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What is “COMPETENCE”?
‘The experience, knowledge and appropriate qualifications to enable workers to identify risks arising from a situation and the measures needed to be taken’
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Therefore: -
Train workers in work at height: - MEWP operators
Net riggers
Consider formal training on safe work procedures when working at height, not just on-the-job training
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Risk Assessment Approach
Identify work at height hazards
Who will be at risk; and how?
Evaluate risks: Are you doing enough? Do you need to do more?
Record and review
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Risk Assessment Approach
Consider the: - Activity and equipment to be used
Duration and location; consider hazards
Environment (weather, lighting)
Existing work surfaces (condition, stability)
Physical capabilities of workforce (vertigo sufferers)
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What You Need to Work at Height?
Plan in advance, consider selection and use of work equipment
Supervision
Weather conditions
Emergency/rescue procedures
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Work Platforms?
A work platform is now defined as: -
‘Virtually any surface from which work is carried out, such as a roof, scaffold platform, MEWP, orthe treads of a stepladder’
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Air mats in domestic housing sector
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Hierarchy of Control
Duty holders must: -
Avoid work at height where possible
Use work equipment or other measures to prevent falls during work at height
Where the risk of a fall cannot be eliminated, use work equipment or other measures to minimise the distance and consequences of a fall
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Can Work at Height be Avoided?
Consider the activity
Can you modify? E.g. Erect guardrails on false work at ground level,Work from underneath,Assemble at ground level then lift into place
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Working at Height Control Measures
Collective Measures: - Protect more than one person at any one time
Passive ( no further action needed by users)
Takes priority over personal measures
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Personal Measures: -
Relies upon PPE
Only protects the user
Active (user must take further action for them to be effective)
Working at Height Control Measures
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No visible damage to ladders;Unpainted - so damage is not masked;
Right way up - reinforcement underneath the rungs;
Standing on base of the stiles, not supported on rungs.
Extending 1.1.m above and with a rung level with the platform;
Secured to scaffold;
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Inspection & Maintenance of Equipment
• Ladders to be constructed to BS 2037 (Aluminium), BS 1129 (Wood):
Class 1 Industrial Standard or BS EN 131
• Ladder inspections recorded on weekly time sheets
• Ladder tag system in place
• All MEWPs in use to have up to date LOLER Certificate
• Safety Harness Inspection procedure
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THINK!!
5 SECONDS OF SAFETY
1. Is what I am doing safe?
2. What could go wrong
3. Who could be Injured
4. What Improvements could be made to make the job safer
5. Consider the overall consequences if you carry on and ignore any problems identified
IF IN DOUBT, STOP!
Seek Assistance/Advice
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"EVERY
WEEK
ONE
OF US
DIES"
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Summary
1. Plan the Work at Height.
2. Ensure all staff are competent to carry out the tasks assigned to them.
3. Consider using the Risk Assessment approach.
4. Select the appropriate work equipment.
5. Control the risks.
6. Ensure all Work at Height equipment is inspected and maintained & relevant documentation is up to date.
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