Safety Cornwall Ltd.

Health and Safety Update - Top Priorities

Fri 11th Jan

Work at Height

This continues to be the number 1 priority for HSE.
We recently dealt with the aftermath of one tragic fall through a fragile roof.
We continue to find damaged and otherwise unsuitable ladders and stepladders in the workplace:

A few essential rules for safe work at height:

  1. provide the right equipment – all laddes and stepladders used at work should now be Industrial Class 1 (blue);
  2. Make sure that you have an inventory of all access equipment – ladders etc – and check them periodically;
  3. Any work undertaken from a ladder must be subjected to prior risk assessment;
  4. Any work on or near fragile roofs must be subjected to a method statement;
  5. You must manage the work of any contractors and intervene if they fail to work safely.

Workplace Transport

This continues to be number 2 priority for HSE,
We are currently helping a number of clients to resolve issues that do not comply with requirements.
The law requires in particular that you must:

  1. Organise traffic movements safely;
  2. Pay special regard to pedestrians – workers or visitors to your site;
  3. Pay special regard to any loading or unloading activities;
  4. Either prevent reversing on site or otherwise ensure it is properly controlled or supervised;
  5. As far as possible, prevent persons climbing onto vehicles and PROHIBIT persons climbing onto loads (including visiting drivers);

provided by Safety Cornwall Ltd.