General

• Selecting Competent Contractors for Work at Height
• Guidance used by HSE Inspectors on Work at Height
• News and prosecutions on falls from height
• Selecting, using and maintaining personal fall protection equipment
• HSE urges caution over retractable type fall arresters
• Inspection of Fall Arrest Equipment made from webbing or Rope
• Question and answer brief for the construction industry on the Work at Height Regulations 2005
• HSE free leaflets – Falls from height

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Scaffolding

HSE guidance

• Scaffold information sheet
• Question and answer brief for the construction industry on the Work at Height Regulations 2005
• Construction Information Sheet 10 – Tower Scaffolds
• Construction Information Sheet 47 (Rev1) – Inspection and Reports
• Falls and Trips in Construction – Working at Height
• Case study – how not to use a tower scaffold
• HSE Falls from Height web pages

Further sources of information

• National Access & Scaffolding Confederation
• Scaffold Erector Certification - CISRS

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Roofwork

HSE guidance

• Fragile roof safety alert for builders
• Free leaflets - Falls from Height  
• Question and answer brief for the construction industry on the Work at Height Regulations 2005
• HSE Falls from Height web pages
• Safe use of ladders and stepladders
• Toolbox talk on leaning ladder and stepladder safety
• Top tips for ladder and stepladder safety
• Minor roof maintenance work: Protecting against falls

Further sources of information

• Advisory Committee on Roofwork (ACR)
• Training Card Schemes for Construction - CITB - Construction Skills

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Ladders

• Stepladders
• Safe use of ladders and stepladders
• Top tips for ladder and stepladder safety
• Leaning ladders
• Toolbox talk on leaning ladder and stepladder safety

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Good Order

• Falls and Trips in construction – Good Order
• Watch your step in the construction industry
• Healthy handling
• Fit out campaign 2005 -  falls and good order
• Watch your step in construction 2006 - good order intiative

Further sources of information

• CIRIA – Storage and materials handling

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Mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs e.g. Cherry Picker, scissor lift)

• Question and answer brief for the construction industry on the Work at Height Regulations 2005
• Mobile elevating work platforms
• HSE issues mobile plant warning to construction industry (HSE Press release October 2005)
• Preventing falls from boom-type mobile elevated work platforms. MISC 614

Further sources of information

• International Powered Access Federation (IPAF)

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