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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 sup-

ports 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 plat- form; 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 3 800 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.