Employer should ensure that employees with sufficient skills, knowledge and experience SKE are employed to do the job, or, if they are being trained, that they perform the task under the supervision of someone with sufficient SKE to do it.
For tasks, that are low-risk and short duration short duration means tasks that take less than 30 minutes involving ladders, the SKE requirements may be no more than ensuring employees obtain instruction on how to use the equipment safely for example how to secure a ladder properly and suitable training. Training often takes place on the job, and does not necessarily in a classroom. When a more technical level of SKE is required, for example planning and assembling a scaffold, existing training and certification schemes helps to demonstrate SKE.
General principles of prevention encourages employer to first consider collective protection, whereby everyone who is at risk is protected. If this is not practical, then consider personal protection, that only protect individuals. Collective protection is equipment that does not require the worker to act to be effective, for example guard rail also called passive protection. Personal protection also called active protection is equipment that requires the worker to act to be effective, for example wearing safety harness correctly and attaching it, via an energy-absorbing lanyard, to a suitable anchor point.
Where the safety of the equipment depends on how it has been assembled, an employer should ensure it is not used until it has been inspected in that position by a person with the necessary SKE.
Inspections should be conducted at suitable intervals appropriate to the environment for example, adverse weather, accidental damage and use. The law imposes general duties upon the employees to take reasonable care of themselves and others who may be affected by their actions, and to cooperate with their employer to comply with the law. Employers should ask employees and their representatives what they think the hazards are and they may have some good, practical ideas on how to control the risks.
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Construction Safety Work at Height. Work at Height Definition 1. Existing legislation in Malaysia does not provide specific definition to work at height.
The Work at Height Regulations WAHR in UK defined work at height as work in any place where, including a place at or below ground level; obtaining access to or egress from such place while at work, except by a staircase in permanent workplace, where, if measures requires by these Regulations were not taken, a person could fall a distance liable to cause personal injury.
The definition includes work, in or on an elevated place of work, for example on a ladder or a flat roof, from which a person could fall; in the vicinity of an opening through which a person could fall; in the vicinity of an edge over which a person could fall; or in any other place whether above or below ground , for example fall through a fragile surface, from which a person could fall, from one level to another.
Prescribed Distance 5. The prescribed distance is no longer enforced in the UK. Prescribed Measures Existance of Other Hazard Brief Guidance Prior to work at height, employer should go through these simple steps: avoid work at height where it is practicable to do so, if this is not practical, prevent falls using either an existing place of work that is already safe or the right type of equipment; if the risk cannot be eliminated, minimise the consequences and distance of a fall, by using the right type of equipment.
Figure 1 gives further guidance and examples for each steps. Brief Guidance Prior to work at height, employer should go through these simple steps: avoid work at height where it is practicable to do so, if this is not practical, prevent falls using either an existing place of work that is already safe or the right type of equipment; if the risk cannot be eliminated, minimise the consequences and distance of a fall, by using the right type of equipment.
This regulation generally sets out a simple hierarchy for managing and selecting equipment for work at height. Work at height training is for persons requiring basic compliance to work at height requirements, and knowledge of fitting and using a fall arrest safety harness to connect to a suitable anchor point. Read Also : How to calculate the total fall distance of your lanyard. HSE harness training requirements is a basic legal requirement for the use of safety harness belt.
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