1983 Ed.]
Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations
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(a) if the scaffold is so situated that a person would be liable to fall from its working platform a distance of more than 4.5 metres; or
(b) if constructed with more than one tier where folding supports are used.
(3) The contractor shall ensure that no trestle scaffold is erected on a scaffold platform unless--
(a) the width of the said platform is such as to leave sufficient clear space for the transport of materials along the platform; and
(b) the trestles or supports are firmly attached to the said platform and adequately braced to prevent displacement.
38K. (1) Subject to paragraph (3), the contractor responsible for a scaffold shall ensure that the scaffold is not used on a construction site unless-
(a) the scaffold-
(i) has been inspected by a competent person within the immediately preceding month;
(ii) has been inspected by a competent person since exposure to weather conditions likely to have affected its strength or stability or to have displaced any part; and
(b) a report has been made by the person carrying out the inspection in the prescribed form containing the prescribed particulars which includes a statement to the effect that the scaffold is in safe working order.
(2) A report under this regulation of an inspection and the results thereof, signed by the person carrying out the inspection, shall be-
(a) made in the prescribed form and contain the prescribed particulars; and
(b) delivered forthwith to the contractor concerned.
(3) This regulation shall not apply in relation to a scaffold no part of which has been erected for more than a month, or a trestle scaffold or a scaffold from no part of which a person is liable to fall a distance of more than 2 metres.
38L. The contractor responsible for a construction site shall ensure that-
(a) every working platform, gangway or run from any of which a person is liable to fall a distance of more than 2 metres is either closely boarded, planked or plated, or is a platform consisting of open metal work having interstices none of which exceeds 3800 square millimetres in area;
(b) every board or plank forming part of a working platform, gangway or run is-
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[Subsidiary]
Inspection of scaffolds.
First Schedule. Form 12.
Construction of working platforms, gangways, runs, etc.