{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-2005/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-2005/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/735",
  "legislation_title": "The Work at Height Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Organisation and planning",
  "text": "(1) Every employer shall ensure that work at height is—\n(a) properly planned;\n(b) appropriately supervised; and\n(c) carried out in a manner which is so far as is reasonably practicable safe,\nand that its planning includes the selection of work equipment in accordance with regulation 7.\n(2) Reference in paragraph (1) to planning of work includes planning for emergencies and rescue.\n(3) Every employer shall ensure that work at height is carried out only when the weather conditions do not jeopardise the health or safety of persons involved in the work.\n(4) Paragraph (3) shall not apply where members of the police, fire, ambulance or other emergency services are acting in an emergency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/735/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:03:31.777165+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."
}