Safety at Height work


Safety at Height work



Definitions


Work at Height, is work in any place, including a place at, above or below ground level where a person could be injured if they fell from that place. This can also include means of access and egress to a place of work. The legislation no longer specifies a minimum height, ‘the 2m rule’. For example, work on the roof of a building, experimental hutch, Portacabin or other raised platform that does not have edge protection. The majority of external building roofs are under the control of site Estate teams and have edge protection.

Roof – is the uppermost covering or part of a structure. The structure may be inside another structure (e.g. an experimental hutch).

Work Equipment – means any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work




Height and severity
The severity of injury increases with the height of the fall but also depends on body and surface features and the manner of the body's impacts against the surface.[23] The chance of surviving increases if landing on a highly deformable surface (a surface that is easily bent, compressed, or displaced) such as snow or water.[23]

Injuries caused by falls from buildings vary depending on the building's height and the age of the person. Falls from a building's second floor/story (American English) or first floor/storey (British English and equivalent idioms in continental European languages) usually cause injuries but are not fatal. Overall, the height at which 50% of children die from a fall is between four and five storey heights (around 12 to 15 metres or 40 to 50 feet) above the ground

Responsibilities

4.1. Managers and Supervisors of work at height shall:

4.1.1. ensure that every effort is made to avoid working at height and that where it cannot be avoided a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to health and safety is completed before the work is carried out.



The risk assessment should be based upon SHE Code 6 Risk Management and specific guidance in assessing the hazards associated with work at height can be found at Appendix 1.

4.1.2. provide suitable work equipment or other measures, such as guard-rails, to prevent falls where work at height cannot be avoided and ensure that all equipment used while work at height is being carried out is properly inspected and maintained.

Areas where regular access is required for maintenance etc. should be protected as far as is reasonably practicable (see HSE document INDG 284 “Working on Roofs”).

4.1.3. except for the simplest jobs where the necessary precautions are straightforward and can easily be repeated, ensure that prior to working at height a method statement including emergency procedures, and rescue procedures where fall arrest harnesses are used, has been developed. Ensure where a ‘Permit to work on roofs’ is raised, it is issued and communicated to those undertaking work, see Appendix 2.

4.1.4. ensure that all staff who work at height and ‘Permit to work on roof Issuers’, have appropriate information, instruction, training and supervision to ensure their competence, see Appendix 4 for training requirements.

4.1.5. ensure that contractors do not start any work at height without having provided a suitable risk assessment and method statement.

4.1.6. ensure that, where appropriate, all contractors employed are competent to work at height and are appropriately supervised when on site

Falling is the second leading cause of accidental death worldwide and is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Falls in older adults are an important class of preventable injuries. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters are occupations with high rates of fall injuries.

About 155 million new cases of a significant fall occurred in 2013. These unintentional falls resulted in 556,000 deaths up from 341,000 deaths in 1990








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