| 1)
Every employer shall ensure that lifting equipment for lifting persons - |
a)
subject to sub-paragraph (b), is such as to prevent a person using it being crushed,
trapped or struck or falling from the carrier; |
b)
is such as to prevent so far as is practicable a person using it, while carrying
out activities from the carrier, being crushed, trapped or struck or falling from
the carrier; |
c)
subject to paragraph (2) has suitable devices to prevent the risk of a carrier
falling; |
d)
is such that a person trapped in any carrier is not thereby exposed to danger
and can be freed. |
| 2) Every
employer shall ensure that if the risk described in paragraph (1) (c) cannot be
prevented for reasons inherent in the site and height differences - |
a)
the carrier has an enhanced safety coefficient suspension rope or chain; and |
b)
the rope or chain is inspected by a competent person every working day. |
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