Paragraph 5 Safety on working platformsI1

Northern Ireland

A working platform shall –

(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;

(b)

possess a suitable surface and, in particular, be so constructed that the surface of the working platform has no gap –

(i)

through which a person could fall;

(ii)

through which any material or object could fall and injure a person; or

(iii)

giving rise to other risk of injury to any person unless measures have been taken to protect persons against such risk; and

(c)

be so erected and used, and maintained in such condition, as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable –

(i)

the risk of slipping or tripping; or

(ii)

any person being caught between the working platform and any adjacent structure.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 4 Pt. 1 para. 5 in operation at 11.7.2005, see reg. 1