{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-1998/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-1998/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2307",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Positioning and installation",
  "text": "(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—\n(a) of the lifting equipment or a load striking a person; or\n(b) from a load—\n(i) drifting;\n(ii) falling freely; or\n(iii) being released unintentionally;\nand it is otherwise safe.\n(2) Every employer shall ensure that there are suitable devices to prevent a person from falling down a shaft or hoistway.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 5.12.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2307/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:30.751401+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."
}