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Regulation 7 Accidents to persons at work from moving vehicles

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

A person to whom this regulation applies shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable and insofar as they are matters within his control, that —

(a)

appropriate procedures are in place;

(b)

where appropriate, equipment which is suitable and sufficient is provided and maintained, for the purpose of preventing any person at work on a railway from being struck by, or falling from, a moving vehicle.

(2)

This regulation applies to —

(a)

A person in control of any infrastructure;

(b)

An operator of a vehicle’

(c)

An employer of a person at work on a railway;

(d)

A self-employed person as it applies to an employer and a person at work on a railway as if that self-employed person were both the employer and the person at work.