# The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998, Regulation 6: Positioning and installation

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2307/regulation/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/lifting-operations-and-lifting-equipment-regulations-1998/regulation-6
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