Working at height remains a major cause of injuries and fatalities. Employers must properly plan work at height, use the right equipment, and provide fall protection training to competent workers. Simple precautions like performing work from ladders safely and avoiding fragile surfaces can reduce risks. Workers should avoid working at unprotected heights whenever possible.

1. BY PROVIDING PPE
WORK AT HEIGHT
Working at height remains one of the biggest
causes of fatalities and major injuries.
Common cases include falls from ladders and
through flimsy surfaces.
‘Work at height’ means work in any place where,
if there were no precautions in place, a person
could fall a distance liable to cause personal injury
This section shows how employers can take simple,
practical measures to reduce the risk of any of their
workers falling while working at height.

2. What do I have to do?
You must make sure work is properly planned, supervised and carried out
by competent people with the skills, knowledge and experience to do the
job. You must use the right type of equipment for working at height.
Before working at height work through these simple steps:
 Avoid work at height
• Where work at height cannot be easily avoided, prevent falls using
either an existing place of work that is already safe or the right type of
equipment
• Minimize the distance and consequences of a fall, by using the right
type of equipment where the risk cannot be eliminated
• For each step, always consider measures that protect everyone at risk
(collective protection) before measures that only protect the individual
(personal protection).

3. DOS AND DON’TS OF
WORKING AT HEIGHT
Do
 As much work as possible from the
ground
 Ensure workers can get safely to and
from where they work at height
 Ensure equipment is suitable, stable and
strong enough for the job, maintained
and checked regularly
 Take precautions when working on or
near fragile surfaces
 Provide protection from falling objects
consider emergency evacuation and
rescue procedures.
Don’t…
 Overload ladders – consider the equipment
or materials workers are carrying before
working at height. Check the pictogram or
label on the ladder for information
 Overreach on ladders or stepladders
rest a ladder against weak upper surfaces,
glazing or plastic gutters
 use ladders or step ladders for vigorous or
heavy tasks, only use them for light work of
short duration (a maximum of 30 minutes at
a time)
 let anyone who is not competent (who
doesn’t have the skills, knowledge and
experience to do the job) work at height

4. SAFETY WAY OF WORK
BY PROVIDING BOOM LIFT

5. WORKING AT HEIGHT
Do not stress your body
to reach the object/work

6. PROVIDING LADDER
Unsafe work
SAFE WORK

7. WORK AT ROOF TOP
When worker goes to roof top ensure
1. Safe dress
2. Safety shoes
3. Safety helmet
4. Safety harness
5. Safe ladder with lockable end clamp

8. WORKING AT HEIGHT

9. SAFE WORK
Are you doing safe way of work : IF YES tell

10. HAZARDS WORK
Are you doing Hazards way of work : IF YES tell me

11. WHERE TO USE SAFETY HARNESS
Harness

12. WERE TO USE SAFETY HARNESS AT
ELEVATED HEIGHT
 EOT crane platform
 Walkway platform at height
 Scissor Lift
 Boom lift
 Roof top

13. DO NOT PANIC .DO NOT HURRY

14. JUDGE YOURSELF HOW SAFE YOU ARE

15. SAFE WORK

16. FALL ARRESTER

17. STEP PLATE FORM

18. STATIC PLATFORM

19. SCAFFOLDING MOBILE TOWER

20. USE SAFETY PPE WHEN WORK AT
HEIGHT

21. METHOD OF USING
HARNESS

22. Observation
Near miss

23. Damage Injury

24. TRANSFORMER ERECTION SITE

25. IDENTIFICATION FALL
OF HAZARDS
HSE regulations says
The Working at Height Regulations 2005, (as
amended 2007), apply to all workplaces. These
regulations place responsibilities on all involved in
Working at Height, these are:-
 The employer
 Anyone who controls the work of others
 The self employed
 The workers
 falling from a height of more than 3
metres (approx. 10 feet);
 falling into operating machinery;
falling into water or another liquid;
 falling into or onto a hazardous
substance or
object;
 falling though an opening in a work
surface.

27. Working at height
Think safely
What is working at height
SAFETY STARTS WITH ME
Risk of working at height