METHOD STATEMENT GENERAL HIGH-LEVEL WORKS

 

 GENERAL HIGH-LEVEL WORKS

• We [COMPANY NAME HERE] reserve the right on all worksite jobs to hire and charge as an additional to the contract any form of hydraulic access platform that we deem to be necessary for the safety of our operatives and the safety of the site in general.
• Before high-level work commences, we will discuss the full implications with the customer’s site. 
• To protect the workforce and trespassers, all areas below our high-level work area will be cordoned off with RED & WHITE warning tape essentially.     
• This area will be out of bounds for everyone unless permission to enter is obtained from us.     
• Safety shoes and hard hats will always be worn in this area.
• All types of ladders involved in the work will be tied off and made safe. The bottom of the ladders will be secured or “footed” by a second person. Ladders will not be left upright and unsecure. Ladders will always be used following the codes of good practice laid down by the HSE.     
• No broken, faulty, or damaged ladder will be used for the site work.
• Where possible an operative working from a ladder will wear a safety harness securely fastened to the building structure to enhance the safety of the workers involved in the work at height.
• Overreaching on ladders past normal arm’s length is strictly forbidden. 
• As is the practice of relocating, shifting, moving or installing the ladder from the top whilst standing on it.
• Aluminium steps or scaffolding towers will always be used in preference over ladders.
• The use of these items will be governed by the current codes of good practice as laid down by the HSE.
• All toe boards, outriggers and decking to tower scaffolding will be always used.
• Harnesses will be used where practical fastened to the building structure.
• The practice of moving, relocating or installing a scaffold with someone on it is strictly forbidden.
• No one shall climb up the outside of a tower scaffold.
• Overreaching on a tower scaffold is strictly forbidden.
• The Ladders and long steps should be carried by two people when possible/applicable.
• To make workforce secure from any fatal injury or death, before any ladder, tower scaffold or step ladder is erected any overhead hazard must be made safe.
• It is forbidden to work on any live electrical appliance whilst standing on a ladder, step ladder or scaffold tower. (Fault finding and commissioning may need and demand the power to a unit to be switched on. In this event all reasonable precautions should be taken to prevent accidents). No electrical connections will be made on live equipment, device or light machinery at any time.