The Work at Height Regulations 2005

Stability of working platforms

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

4.  A working platform shall—

(a)be suitable and of sufficient strength and rigidity for the purpose or purposes for which it is intended to be used or is being used;

(b)be so erected and used as to ensure that its components do not become accidentally displaced so as to endanger any person;

(c)when altered or modified, be so altered or modified as to ensure that it remains stable; and

(d)be dismantled in such a way as to prevent accidental displacement.