# The Work at Height Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, Paragraph 5: Safety on working platforms

Extent: N.I.

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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/279/schedule/4/part/1/paragraph/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/work-at-height-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/schedule-4/part-1/paragraph-5
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