Regulation 6 Positioning and installationI1
United Kingdom
(1)
Every employer shall ensure that lifting equipment is positioned or installed in such a way as to reduce to as low as is reasonably practicable the risk—
(a)
of the lifting equipment or a load striking a person; or
(b)
from a load—
(i)
drifting;
(ii)
falling freely; or
(iii)
being released unintentionally;
and it is otherwise safe.
(2)
Every employer shall ensure that there are suitable devices to prevent a person from falling down a shaft or hoistway.