47Use of plant to control risk

47 Use of plant to control risk

(1) An employer must ensure that any plant used to control a risk associated with a fall is—

(a) designed and constructed for the task or range of tasks to be undertaken; and

(b) designed and constructed in such a way as to enable its safe use in the physical surroundings in which it is to be used and the conditions during which it is to be used.

Examples of physical surroundings are the type of surface supporting plant and proximity to powerlines or trees.

Examples of conditions are lighting and weather conditions.

(2) An employer must ensure that the installation, erection or dismantling of plant used to control a risk associated with a fall is carried out in such a manner as to reduce so far as is reasonably practicable any risk while that installation, erection or dismantling is being carried out.

Examples of the risks to be reduced are risks associated with a fall, electric shock, crushing and musculoskeletal disorder.