Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

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or works under someone else’s control, that person 
must ensure that these duties are performed.
Records must be kept at the site where the inspec-
tion was carried out until the work is complete and then 
for 3 months. Extracts must be provided for an inspector 
as they require.
j) Energy Distribution installations – Regulation 34
Energy distribution installations must be suitably located, 
checked and clearly indicated.
Where there is a risk from electric power cables:
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they should be routed away from the risk areas, or
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the power should be cut off, or
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if the above safety measures are not reasonably 
practicable suitable warning notices, with barriers 
to exclude work equipment and suspended protec-
tions where vehicles have to pass underneath, or
➤
something equally as safe must be done.
No construction work which is liable to create a risk to 
health or safety from an underground service, or from 
damage to or disturbance of it, shall be carried out unless 
suitable and suffi cient steps have been taken to prevent 
such risk, sfarp.
k) Prevention of drowning – Regulation 14
Where persons could fall into water or other liquid steps 
must be taken to:
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prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, people 
from falling
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minimize the risk of drowning if people fall
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provide, use and maintain suitable rescue equipment 
to ensure prompt rescue.
Transport to work by water must be suitable and suffi cient 
and any vessel must not be overcrowded or overloaded.
l) Traffi c routes – Regulation 15
Every construction site shall be organized in such a way 
that, so far as is reasonably practicable, pedestrians and 
vehicles can move safely.
Traffi c routes shall be suitable for the persons or 
vehicles using them, suffi cient in number, in suitable 
positions and of suffi cient size.
Must take steps to steps ensure that:
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pedestrians or vehicles may use it without causing 
danger to the health or safety of persons near it
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any door or gate for pedestrians which leads onto a 
traffi c route is suffi ciently separated from it to enable 
them from a place of safety to see any approaching 
vehicle
➤
there 
is 
suffi cient separation between vehicles and 
pedestrians to ensure safety or, where this is not 
reasonably practicable:
(i) 
there are provided other means for the protec-
tion of pedestrians, and
(ii) 
there are effective arrangements for warning any 
person liable to be crushed or trapped by any 
vehicle of its approach
➤
any loading bay has at least one exit point for the 
exclusive use of pedestrians, and
➤
where it is unsafe for pedestrians to use a gate 
intended primarily for vehicles, one or more doors 
for pedestrians is provided in the immediate vicinity 
of the gate, is clearly marked and is kept free from 
obstruction.
Every traffi c route shall be:
➤
indicated by suitable signs
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regularly checked, and
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properly 
maintained.
No vehicle shall be driven on a traffi c route unless, sfarp, 
that traffi c route is free from obstruction and permits suf-
fi cient clearance.