{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-design-and-management-regulations-2015/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-design-and-management-regulations-2015/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/51",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-design-and-management-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Prevention of drowning",
  "text": "(1) Where, in the course of construction work, a person is at risk of falling into water or other liquid with a risk of drowning, suitable and sufficient steps must be taken to—\n(a) prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, the person falling;\n(b) minimise the risk of drowning in the event of a fall; and\n(c) ensure that suitable rescue equipment is provided, maintained and, when necessary, used so that a person may be promptly rescued in the event of a fall.\n(2) Suitable and sufficient steps must be taken to ensure the safe transport of any person conveyed by water to or from a place of work.\n(3) Any vessel used to convey any person by water to or from a place of work must not be overcrowded or overloaded.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/51/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:56.536245+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}