Overview of Work-at-height Safety
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Introduction
This article would introduce the content for work-at-height safety.
When do we need full body safety harness?
1. Working on a truss-out bamboo scaffold# (as per 5.5.2.viii)
2. When it is impracticable to provide a suitable working platform and safe access (as per 6.2.1)
3. Power-operated elevating work platform (as per 5.7.2.vi)
4. Suspended working platform (as per 5.6.1.vii)
5. Dismantling of scaffold at height (6.2.1.6. of bamboo code)
# Truss-out bamboo scaffold means the bamboo that is dependent upon the existing building/structure for support
Do we need harness for walking on the bamboo scaffold with guard rail already?
If it is impracticable to provide a suitable working platform and safe access, harness shall be equipped, no matter you are walking or working.
However, even though suitable working platform and safe access is provided, please also refer to Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance Section 6A – the general duties imposed on the proprietor of an industrial undertaking are to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety at work of all persons employed by him.
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