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Working at height can include many different tasks such as maintaining guttering, pruning trees or using a footstool or ladders to clean windows. It also includes working at ground level where there is a risk of falling, such as working around trapdoors or inspection pits.
Health and safety law, including working at height, is enforced by our Environmental Health Officers.
To help you to understand and comply with the working at height regulations, we have made a short film.
It is aimed at the self-employed and small to medium sized businesses and explains the law in a straightforward and entertaining way.
Watch the video - wmv (streaming Windows media format)
Watch the video - mp4 (streaming mp4 format)
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Your comments
Your comments on this video will be gratefully received.
If you need any more information or advice from us, either contact Environmental Health on 01283 221000 or leave a message and your contact details using the email address below.
If you have had a letter from us and the contact details on the letter are incorrect, please let us know.
If your reply is detailed enough, we may not need to make a follow-up inspection.
2012 Ladder Exchange
Now run and managed by the Ladder Association, the 2012 Ladder Exchange will take place between 1 September and 30 November 2012. Building on the success of HSE's earlier initiative, the Association aims to attract even more companies in support of the scheme which allows users to exchange broken, bent and damaged ladders for new ones at a discounted price.
External links
The Health and Safety Executive provide statistics, information, guidance and news.
Health and Safety Executive - Shattered Lives
Shattered Lives - Request a 'Danger' display card
Health and Safety Myth of the Month
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