Introduction to Health and Safety at Work

m) Vehicles – Regulation 37
The unintended movement of any vehicle must be pre-
vented or controlled.
Suitable and suffi 
cient steps shall be taken to 
ensure that, where a person may be endangered by the 
movement of any vehicle, the person having effective 
control of the vehicle shall give suitable and suffi cient 
warning.
Any vehicle being used for the purposes of 
construction work, shall when being driven, operated or 
towed:
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be driven, operated or towed in a safe manner; and
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be loaded so that it can be driven, operated or 
towed safely.
No person shall ride on any vehicle being used for the 
purposes of construction work except in a safe place 
provided.
No person shall remain on any vehicle during the 
loading or unloading of any loose material unless a safe 
place of work is provided and maintained.
Suitable measures must be taken to prevent any 
vehicle from falling into any excavation or pit, or into 
water, or overrunning the edge of any embankment or 
earthwork.

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n) Prevention of risk from fi re – Regulation 38
Steps must be taken to prevent injury arising from:
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fi res or explosions
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fl ooding, or
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substances liable to cause asphyxiation.
o) Emergency Procedures – Regulation 39
Where necessary, emergency procedures must be pre-
pared and, where necessary, implemented to deal with any 
foreseeable emergency. They must include procedures for 
any necessary evacuation of the site or any part thereof.
The arrangements must take account of:
(a) the type of work for which the construction site is 
being used
(b) the characteristics and size of the construction site 
and the number and location of places of work on 
that site
(c) the work equipment being used
(d) the number of persons likely to be present on the 
site at any one time, and
(e) the physical and chemical properties of any sub-
stances or materials on or likely to be on the site.
Steps must be taken to make people on site familiar 
with the procedures and test the procedures at suitable 
intervals.