Falls when working at height are the most common kind of workplace fatality. Considering the risks associated with working at height, putting in place sensible and proportionate measures to manage them is an important part of working safely. Our step-by-step guide to working at height can help you control the risks. It is also vital to make sure any scaffolding is stable and safe at all times. Our scaffold guidance explains when a scaffold design is required. It also covers the level of training and competence needed for those erecting, dismantling, altering, inspecting and supervising scaffolding. Visit our website for more guidance on managing the risks of working at height. The company was fined £300,000 after 3 crew members descended into a water-filled lift shaft on a floating platform, causing them to become partially submerged. The crew members had been descending in a lift located in one of the platform legs when the water started to flood into the lift before they reached the bottom of the shaft. They were knee-deep in water by the time the lift was able to be stopped by the workers using the emergency button. HSE issued the operator with an improvement notice and work in confined spaces was stopped by the company to allow a full review to take place. Read more in our press release: Oil and gas operator fined following incident on North Sea platform. Visit our news centre for more on recent enforcement cases, which include: building firm fined after house collapse injures 4 manufacturer fined after exposing workers to serious safety risks
It is important to be prepared when an HSE inspector calls at your business. They will look at how you keep your workers, and anyone who may be affected by your work, healthy and safe. Inspectors may also give you health and safety advice or make sure you are providing suitable welfare facilities. We have resources that will help you prepare - they explain: what to expect when an inspector visits your business and how inspections are carried out why inspections are an important part of keeping people healthy and safe at work how to let workers and their representatives know about information an inspector may provide during a visit
You can:
download our leaflet: When a health and safety inspector calls watch our animation about an inspectorâs call on YouTube
The poster explains health and safety laws and lists what workers and their employers should do. If you employ anyone, you must either: display the health and safety law poster where your workers can easily read it provide each worker with the equivalent health and safety law leaflet
There are various versions of the health and safety law poster, so you can select the most appropriate for your business. You can:
download the equivalent health and safety law leaflet buy a hard copy of the health and safety law poster from HSE Books
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