# The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996, Paragraph 4: Stability of working platform


A working platform shall—
(a) be suitable and of sufficient strength and rigidity for the purpose or purposes for which it is intended to be used or is being used; and
(b) be so erected and used as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that it does not become accidentally displaced so as to endanger any person; and
(c) when altered or modified, be so altered or modified as to ensure that it remains stable; and
(d) be dismantled in such a way as to prevent accidental displacement.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1592/schedule/2/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/construction-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-4
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