Your Outsourced Health
and Food Safety Consultant

Myht 1 - HSE have banned the use of ladders on building site No, this isn’t the case. 

 Ladders and stepladders can be a sensible and practical option. They can be used for work at height when the use of other work equipment is not justified because of the low risk and short duration (short duration means working on a ladder for no more than 30 minutes at a time); 

Each year around 170 people are fatally injured at work and more than 100,000 serious injuries are reported to HSE.

Each year around 170 people are fatally injured at work and more than 100,000 serious injuries are reported to HSE.