This document provides an agenda and guidelines for a training on work at height safety. The training covers topics like emergency procedures, definitions of work at height, ladder safety, roof safety, hazards and precautions. It also includes a quiz to test comprehension. General guidelines for the training include following COVID-19 precautions and not being distracted.

1. Welcome
Name of the Trainer:
Syed Neyaz Ahmad
Ph. +971563671957
Email. Neyaz.qhse@gmail.com

2. Agenda
• Self Introduction
• Emergency (Covid-19 Precaution also)
 Stop what are you doing
Proceed to Assembly point located near the gate
Wait for further instruction
Call an Emergency No. as displayed
• Definition WAH
• Ladder Safety,
• Roof Safety
• Hazards & Precautions
• Quiz

3. General during Training
• Covid-19 Precaution
• Follow social distancing
• Wear face mask at all times
• Switch off or silent your Mobile phone
• Don’t sleep during session
• Don’t talk to each other during Training
• Follow Training Health & Safety Procedures

4. What is work at height?
Work at height is work in any place,
including a place at, above or
below ground level, where a person
could be injured if they fell from that place
Any work at height of 1.8 meter or more
from the ground level or floor.
Work there is a risk of a fall liable to cause
Personal injury.

5. Risk Assessment
Examples of what to consider include:
• The work activity
• Equipment to be used
• Location of the work and any hazards
• Working environment (weather, lighting)
• Condition of existing work surfaces
• Duration of the work
• Physical capabilities of workers

6. Organization, Planning, Competence
The Law Work at Height Regulations 2005
Work at height should be:
• Properly planned
• Appropriately supervised
• Not carried out if weather conditions jeopardize health and
safety
• Buddy System
Those working at height should be:
• Competent or if being trained
• Supervised by a competent person
• Choose right equipment to-
 PREVENT FALLS, REDUCE INJURY
Don’t chance it---

7. Planned/right equipment/competent?

8. Hazards
• Falling from Height
• Fall of material & equipment
• Poorly maintained access
• Vertical distance
• Roofs
• Deterioration of material
• Unprotected edges /opening
• Weather condition
• Unwanted or loose materials

9. Precautions
• Wear full body harness with 2 lanyard
• 100% tie off
• Guard rails & toe boards
• Working platform shall be inspected and tag shall be
available
• Tool lanyard for tools
• Don’t store unwanted materials at height
• Select the Proper PPE.
• Inspect Your PPE.
• Self inspect before using of any scaffold
• Never use scaffolds that do not have a proper guardrail system installed

10. Precautions
 Use safety net to avoid any injury after falling
For man Safety net hole 100mm and rope 8 mm
For material Safety net hole 25 mm outline rope 12 mm
 Gin wheel for material shifting from platform- 750 mm

11. The Regulations Hierarchy
 AVOID work at height if you can
 PREVENT falls by using the proper gear, such as scaffolds or cherry pickers
 MINIMISE the chances of being hurt if you fall
 Applies even to small, quick jobs
 Doing nothing is dangerous and illegal

12. Select the right gear
Think about
• Where you are going to be working (ground conditions, space, public)
• How far you could fall and how likely you are to be injured
• How long will the job take and how often will it need to be done
• What you need to do to rescue someone should they fall
• Can the building or scaffold etc take the weight
of the workforce and materials need for the job
• Is it the best piece of kit for the job

13. Prevent Falls
• Use an existing or ‘safe’ place of work where
no additional measures are required
• Use working platforms with guardrails or
powered access platforms

14. Use work equipment to prevent a fall

15. Other things to think about
Prevent tools and materials falling:
 Throwing materials or debris (bombing) never acceptable
 Warn employees about danger areas
 You need to make sure that equipment such as scaffolds are checked
 After assembly or installation
 At suitable intervals or after exceptional circumstances
 Scaffold and tower scaffold inspection in each new position and then every 7
days
 MEWP on site within previous 7 days

16. Main Cause of Accidents
• Poor Scaffolding condition (BS 1139)
• Bad House keeping
• Lack of knowledge about work at height procedure
• Use of jugad
• Without use of PPE’s
• Without use Fall protection systems
1910.140
• Poor Health condition (Acrophobia)

17. Example of Work at Height
• Scaffolding activity (High risk above 10 meters)
(Requires PTW, TRA, WMS)
• Working on roof
• Working on ladders
• Working on ground level adjacent of open excavation
• Mobile Elevated Working Platform (MEWP)
• Tanks

18. The Roof:
A Risky Place To Be Before Working on Roofs:-
• Fragile materials should be identified
and precautions decided
• Roof edge barriers (or scaffolds) must
be erected to prevent people and materials
falling
• Access ladders must be a safe distance
above the stepping-off point and must be
secured
• Where access ladders rise above 9 meters
a safe intermediate platform must be provided

19. The Roof:
A Risky Place To Be Before Working on Roofs:-
• If you can fall more than 2 meters, guardrails
and toe boards must be erected
• Hazards resulting from adverse weather conditions
must be anticipated, and suitable precautions taken
• Wet windy or Icy weather can seriously affect safety
• Sheet materials including asbestos cement or skylights Will
not support weight
• Walking the bolts not acceptable

20. Scaffolds
• Workers must have a safe way
to access the scaffold.
• Don’t Short cut.
• Never use blocks,
bricks, walk boards,
and other unsafe
methods to access
a scaffold.

21. Ladder Safety
Ladders must be
positioned at a safe
angle to Appropriate use of ladders?avoid
potential fall hazards
when climbing.

22. Ladder Safety
Always:
 Using both hands to keep a safe grip.
 Face ladder when going up or down.
 Never climb a ladder while carrying any materials.
 Maintain three points of contact with the ladder
at all times
 Maintain the center line of your body between
the ladder’s vertical support rails while working
 Check bottom of shoes and ladder rungs
for grease and dirt

23. Appropriate use of ladders?

24. Anchorage point
Located at or above
the employee’s waist
Capable of supporting
more than 2270
kg (5000 lbs) per employee
Designed and built to hold
the maximum force of the
fall arrest

25. Fall Arrest Equipment Use
Snap hooks:
Must be locking type
Never hook two snap hooks together

26. Full Body Harness
• PFAS (personal fall arrest system) has only
3 components:
ABC
1.Anchorage point,
2.Body wearer
3.And connecting device

27. Full Body Harness
• Accident occur 80-85% due to unsafe act and
15-20% by unsafe condition
• Fall arrestor only can help after fall
• Don’t write anything on harness
• Only 4 finger gaps allowed in harness strap
• Chest buckle shall be 6 inches from nose
• Shock absorber reducing fall arresting force 65-80%
• Rescue the person within 20 minutes only

29. Tagging system
Do not use scaffold
if there is a red tag
If you have a green tag
then use scaffold

30. What not to do…
• Do not let untrained employees work at height.
• Do not provide untested or expired PPE to your employees.
• Prevent employees from starting the
work if they do not wear the appropriate
PPE for the job.
• Do not store PPE outside or in direct sunlight.
• Do not use fall protection PPE if it is damaged.

31. What not to do…
• Even writing on a harness with marker can damage the
webbing.
• Do not allow employees to use PPE
that doesn’t fit them properly
• Do not use equipment that has been
involved in a fall without it being
inspected by a competent person.

32. Mobile Eelevated work platforms
• Do not operate without pre-use inspection and
unless you are trained
• Check condition of tires, toe boards and guardrails,
• Look for leaking hydraulic fluids
• Look out for overhead obstructions
such as power cables,
• Other equipment or
personnel near-by

33. Mobile Eelevated work platforms
• Only use on firm level ground
• Always wear a safety harness
secured to the platform by lanyard.
• Safety means staying in the basket
and not climbing on the guardrails
• Place barricades and warning
signs around the planned working radius

34. Mobile Eelevated work platforms
• Traveling with a boom, is always in the direction
of travel and at creep speed and only equipment
is designed to allow this.
• Know what to do if machine fails
with platform in raised position

35. Mobile Eelevated work platforms
• Occupants and equipment
must not exceeded
500 lbs / 227 kgs
• Maximum Occupants: 2
• Wind speed Max 12.5 m/s –meter per second
(28 mph-miles per hour) 45KMPH
• Noise 103 db

36. QUIZ
Who is prohibited from working at height?
A. Workers without fall protection
B. Workers with health problem such as heart disease, psychosis, epilepsy, etc..
C. Workers without personal fall arrest system
D. All of the above
When it is not possible to install fall prevention systems,
what will be the appropriate measures to carry out work at height?
A. Use full body harness with connector
B. Work can be performed under competent supervision
C. Work can be performed through approved Fall protection plan..
D. None of the above

37. QUIZ
What is meant by working at height?
A. Working at and/or above 1.8 M height
B. When there is risk of falls from one level to a lower level
C. When there is risk of fall from hole, opening in floor/ground
D.All of the above..
How to prevent falls of material from height?
A. By providing the toe-boards
B. By securing the loose material
C. By using hand tools strap and tools bag
D.All of the above..

38. QUIZ
What is the first preventive measure against working at height?
A. Personal fall arrest system
B. Lifeline system
C. Try to avoid working at height by providing an alternate solution..
D. Guardrail systems
Below is the unsafe act when working at height?
A. Unprotected edges
B. Working without harness on open edge elevated surfaces..
C. Hole on surfaces
D. None of the above

39. QUIZ
How do you know that the scaffolding is not ready for use?
A. Seeing the yellow tag on scaffolding
B. Seeing the green tag on scaffolding
C. Seeing the red tag on the scaffolding..
D. By asking the supervisor

40. QUIZ
What are the three fall prevention systems?
A. Full body harness, anchorage and connectors
B. Top rail, mid rail and toe-board..
C. Safety net, harness and lifeline
D. None of the above
Full body harness with connector and
Anchorage used for_____ Preventing the falls
A. Minimizing the fall distance..
B. Both preventing falls and minimizing the fall distance
C. None of the above

41. QUIZ
If there is no permanent anchor point on the roof, what will you do to
anchor the harness? 29 CFR 1910.66 and 1926.502.
A. One person can hold the lanyard
B. Lifeline can be used..
C. Safety net can be provided
D. None of the above
What are the hazards of working
at height?
A. Height
B. Unprotected edge
C. Fragile roof or degraded material
D. All of the above..

42. QUIZ
At what height from reference level,
fall protection systems require?
A. 1.5 meters
B. 1.8 meters..
C. 4 meters
D. 2.8 meters

43. QUIZ
Below is categorized as special PPEs for working at height
A. High visible vest
B. Hand gloves and goggles
C. Full-body harness with connector and anchorage.. IS 3521:1999
D. Safety helmet
How to restrict the movement of people under working at height?
•By barricading the area
•By providing the caution board
•By deputing a watch man to alert the peoples
•All of the above..

44. QUIZ: Ladder or Scaffold?

45. QUIZ: Is this right?

46. QUIZ: Is this right?

47. How will go home?

48. Thank you