Posted By Mart
No not really Guy. Remember "as so far as is reasonably practicable." Mind you if one of your operatives fell and injured himself he could claim you hadn't adhered to the WAH Regs.
Double edged sword really!!

Posted By Bruce Wayne
As a construction safety advisor, generally I do not see edge protection at the kicker lift unless next to a particular additional hazard.

Our local HSE Construction inspector has recently quoted that he expects to see edge protection where potential falls from platforms over one metre high exists.

A risk assessment should identify any requirement for edge protection at any lower level works. i.e. reasonably, if a person was to fall one metre into sand, the risk of injury would probably identified as low, whereas falling onto bricks, pallets, wheelbarrows, etc would be identified as high.

Internal edge protection will also be required if the gap between structure and scaffold is larger than a scaffold board and no hop-up is in place.

Bear in mind that the current (June/July) national HSE enforcement campaign is on low level work at height and site order.

Hope this helps.

Bruce

Posted By ddraigice
As a former HSE inspector in construction I can say that I was certainly trained to deal with falls from any height with the use of enforcement or verbal advice. The above posting has got it exactly right.

One misconception with the CHSW regs which dealt with falls prior to the wah regs - the 2 metre rule only applied to the use of a double guard rail and toe board. There was still a requirement to protect all falls under reg 6.

Posted By Garry Adams
Guy,

WAH...The hight of the working platform imaterial,i.e 1 inch or 100 feet, the ball is in your court, where there is a risk of falling objects or indeed an operative,install a toe board and handrails, this belt and braces approach suits the Scaffolding Coz...removes tort or liability should that which happens blindly without intelligent design occur.

Garry