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Regulation 6 Positioning and installationI1

Northern Ireland Not yet in force

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(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 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.

Annotations

Commencement

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Reg. 6 in operation at 20.9.1999, see reg. 1