Working At Heights Awareness and Risk Assessment
* KNW offer a full range of accredited 'Working at Heights' and 'scaffold' courses * KNW will continue to supply the waste industry with a full range of appropriate accredited 'Health and Safety' courses.
The HSE warns employers to safeguard employees working at heights
This is following the prosecution of a Coventry Company after an employee fell from a 3.5 high roof.
The employee was constructing the roof of an acoustic booth at a height of 3.5 meters. Access to the roof was via a mobile tower scaffold. To undertake the roof work, it was necessary for the employee to work on the roof and use two planks to kneel and stand on. He was kneeling on the roof perimeter when his drill bit broke, jolting him forward. As a result he lost his balance and fell onto a concrete floor.
The injured man had not been trained to work at heights and his supervisor had not been trained to conduct risk assessments. Furthermore the supervisor had not done any work himself at height training.
