{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/735",
  "legislation_title": "The Work at Height Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Safety on working platforms",
  "text": "A working platform shall—\n(a) be of sufficient dimensions to permit the safe passage of persons and the safe use of any plant or materials required to be used and to provide a safe working area having regard to the work being carried out there;\n(b) possess a suitable surface and, in particular, be so constructed that the surface of the working platform has no gap—\n(i) through which a person could fall;\n(ii) through which any material or object could fall and injure a person; or\n(iii) giving rise to other risk of injury to any person, unless measures have been taken to protect persons against such risk; and\n(c) be so erected and used, and maintained in such condition, as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable—\n(i) the risk of slipping or tripping; or\n(ii) any person being caught between the working platform and any adjacent structure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/735/schedule/3/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}