Falls from height continue to be a leading cause of workplace injuries and deaths. As part of an ongoing effort to make improves in this area, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has overhauled its guidance for working at height, providing simplified advice, debunking common myths, offering targeted advice for risk management and helping workers realize their own responsibilities for working safely at height.
Without changing regulations, HSE has launched simplified guidance for working at height. New web pages offer users resources such as, industry specific information, a step-by-step guide for risk management, FAQs, the Work At Height, Access equipment Information Toolkit (WAIT), and brief guides for ladder use and work at height.