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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1996/schedule-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1592",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-health-safety-and-welfare-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/7",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "PLACES OF WORK REQUIRING INSPECTION",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nPlace of Work\nTime of inspection\n1 Any working platform or part thereof or any personal suspension equipment provided pursuant to paragraph (3)(b) or (c) of regulation 6.\n1 (i) Before being taken into use for the first time; and\n(ii) after any substantial addition, dismantling or other alteration; and\n(iii) after any event likely to have affected its strength or stabililty; and\n(iv) at regular intervals not exceeding 7 days since the last inspection.\n2 Any excavation which is supported pursuant to paragraphs (1), (2) or (3) of regulation 12.\n2 (i) Before any person carries out work at the start of every shift; and\n(ii) after any event likely to have affected the strength or stability of the excavation or any part thereof; and\n(iii) after any accidental fall of rock or earth or other material.\n3 Cofferdams and caissons\n3 (i) Before any person carries out work at the start of every shift; and\n(ii) after any event likely to have affected the strength or stability of the cofferdam or caisson or any part thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/735",
      "affecting_title": "The Work at Height Regulations 2005"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1592/schedule/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:41:26.063983+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."
}