Work at height

The Work at Height Regulations (2005) define work at height as:

• work in any place, including a place at or below ground level;
• obtaining access to or egress from such place while at work, except by a staircase in a permanent workplace,

where, if measures required by the regulations were not taken, a person could fall a distance liable to cause personal injury.

In February 2019, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Working at Height published Staying Alive: Preventing Serious Injury and Fatalities while Working at Height calling for a more robust system of reporting workplace falls, overseen by an independent body and with financial penalties for breaches.

Articles about working at height on Designing Buildings Wiki include:

• Crane regulations.
• Dynamic self-retracting lanyard.
• How to remove scaffolding.
• How to use a ladder.
• Lift table.
• Lifting device.
• Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER).
• Lifting platform.
• Lifts
• Mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs).
• Post lift.
• Scaffolding.
• Scissor lift.
• The Importance of Working at Height Training.
• Types of crane.
• Types of scaffolding.
• Work at height checklist for managers.
• Work at height regulations.
• Working at height training.
• Working platform.
• Working platforms for tracked plant: good practice guide to the design, installation, maintenance and repair of ground-supported working platforms.