Morning all,

I am trying to address the issue of fall prevention on sloped tiled roof for short duration work.  Safe access and edge protection is in place via suitable and secure mobile scaffold tower - the concern is when they go outside the width of scaffold. Other principles from HSG 33 have been used as well but hazard still remains.

I am interested to know what options others use to deal with this issue - work being done would be minor repairs to roof, chimney, gutters etc. 

Thanks in advance for any help or advice can be provided 

PG

Hi,

If you are using HSG33, without repeating all the information, it gives good advice on the situation you describe on pages 32 through to 36.

The question you ask is short duration which is measured in minutes and not hours (which a mobile tower scaffold could be used for) as long as you are not working outside of the scaffold as it defeats the purpose of the scaffold/edge protection. You are starting in the right place by using HSG33 as on the pages mentioned it gives minimum requirements for short duration work.

Clearly you are going through the thought process and risk assessment otherwise you would not have raised it as a question and the answer you have already come to is that the current method of work is not really suitable. You will need to provide something a little more robust which will invariably cost more, but the law is fairly explicit when it comes to work at height and the controls required.

I hope this helps?