55Hazard identification

55 Hazard identification

(1) An employer or a self-employed person must, so far as is reasonably practicable, identify all hazards associated with work in a confined space.

2 See definition of work in a confined space in regulation 5.

(2) An employer or self-employed person may carry out hazard identification under subregulation (1) for a class of confined space rather than for an individual confined space if—

(a) all the confined spaces in the class are similar; and

(b) the identification carried out for the class of confined space does not result in any employee being subject to any greater, additional or different risk to health or safety than if the identification were carried out for each individual confined space.