| Guides and Information | |
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Guides and information specifically related to access equipment are numerous and in particular the HSE website is most helpful. The HMSO website is also useful in that most legislation can be accessed or obtained through it. The DTI have commissioned various reports and research work on ladders and related matters. A list of publications and contacts is shown below with links where they are available: |
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| HSE Website - HSE Information Sheets provide notes on good practice, which are not compulsory but which might be found helpful in considering what needs to be done. Where mandatory requirements under Legislation are included they are shown in Bold Type. |
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| HSE Health and Safety Regulation - A Short Guide | |
| HSE General Access - Scaffolds and Ladders Construction Information Sheet No 49 | |
| HSE Construction Health and Safety Checklist - Construction Sheet No 17(revised) | |
| HSC Directors’ Responsibilities for Health and Safety | |
| HSE A guide to the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 | |
| HSE Health and Safety Law - What you should know | |
| Using Work Equipment Safely | |
| Using Work Equipment Safely - Ladders | |
| Simple Guide to the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 | |
| Workplace Health Safety & Welfare - A short guide for Managers | |
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| DTI Website | |
| The Ladder User's Handbook - produced by Consumer Safety Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry with support of the British Ladder Manufacturers' Association - DTI/Pub 5212/100K/12/00/RP URN 95/577 Available free from DIY stores, Hire Shops etc. | |
| The Stepladder User's Guide - produced by Consumer Safety Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry with support of the British Ladder Manufacturers' Association - DTI/Pub 2423/200K/9/96/R URN 96/778 Available free from DIY stores, Hire Shops etc. | |
| Assessment of leaning ladder safety devices - research report on ladder safety devices DTI/Pub URN99/707. |