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Risk · UK duty guide
Working at height
The task, the access, and the fall control.
On the file
Whether the height can be avoided, the access chosen, and the fall control.
Duty
Work at Height Regulations 2005
Where it is used
On the task, before anyone goes up.
What the duty covers
- Avoid the height if it can be done from the ground.
- The access chosen, and why a ladder is not the default.
- The fall control, and who is cleared to use it.
On the file
- Whether it can be done from the ground
- The access chosen, and why
- Why a ladder is not the default
- The fall control
- Who is cleared to use it
How this duty should sit
These notes describe how the duty can sit on a digital record. This page is a guide to a UK duty. It is not a screen in EHSync Safety.
- The assessment sits next to the permit and the scaffold inspection.
- Who is cleared is taken from the training record, not a guess.
The duty
The UK law we work to, by name.
Work at Height Regulations 2005
Avoid, prevent, minimise. The hierarchy is the assessment.
Who uses it
The supervisor planning the access. Who is cleared is read from the training record.
Sits with
Next to the work-at-height permit and the scaffold inspection.
What good looks like
The order is on the record: avoid, then prevent, then minimise. The people named are cleared.
Also in Risk
All guides- Risk assessmentsThe hazard, the score, the control, and the date it has to be looked at again.
- Hazard registerEvery hazard on the job, and the control that sits against it.
- COSHHThe substance on the task, not a folder of data sheets in the cabin.
- Substance registerWhat is on site, and where it is stored.
- Manual handlingThe load, the person, and the control.
- DSEThe workstation assessment, and the date it is due again.