# The Work at Height Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, Regulation 2: Interpretation

Extent: N.I.

(1) In these Regulations –
“the 1978 Order” means the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;
“access” and “egress” include ascent and descent;
“construction work” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 ; ;
“the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland;
“fragile surface” means a surface which would be liable to fail if any reasonably foreseeable loading were to be applied to it;
“ladder” includes a fixed ladder and a stepladder;
“line” includes rope, chain or webbing;
“the Management Regulations” means the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000;
“personal fall protection system” means –
(a)a fall prevention, work restraint, work positioning, fall arrest or rescue system, other than a system in which the only safeguards are collective protection measures; or
(b)rope access and positioning techniques;
“suitable” means suitable in any respect which it is reasonably foreseeable will affect the safety of any person;
“territorial sea” means the territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Northern Ireland and “within the territorial sea” includes on, over and under it;
“work at height” means –
(a)work in any place, including a place at or below ground level;
(b)obtaining access to or egress from such place while at work, except by a staircase in a permanent workplace,
where, if measures required by these Regulations were not taken, a person could fall a distance liable to cause personal injury;
“work equipment” means any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work (whether exclusively or not) and includes anything to which regulation 8 and Schedules 3 to 7 apply;
“working platform” –
(a)means any platform used as a place of work or as a means of access to or egress from a place of work;
(b)includes any scaffold, suspended scaffold, cradle, mobile platform, trestle, gangway, gantry and stairway which is so used.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations to the keeping of a report or copy of a report or plan shall include reference to its being kept in a form –
(a) in which it is capable of being reproduced as a printed copy when required;
(b) which is secure from loss or unauthorised interference.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/279/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2
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