Workplace transport safety An employers' guide - ARRI Lighting Rental

Health and Safety
Executive
521 In some workplaces (for example, landfill sites) gantries and platforms may
need to be moved around. They should be used only after a competent person has
checked it is safe to do so.
522 If there is any doubt as to whether a platform or gantry is suitable to be used, it
should not be used.
Housekeeping
523 If vehicles or other obstructions are left blocking traffic ways, or if driving or
walking surfaces become littered, slippery or too dirty, they may cause significant
risks to health and safety.
524 By law, traffic routes must, so far as is ‘reasonably practicable’, be kept free
from obstructions and from anything that may cause a person to slip, trip or fall.
525 By law, every floor in a workplace, and the surface of every traffic route, must
be kept free from obstructions, so far as is ‘reasonably practicable’.
526 For more about what ‘reasonably practicable’ means, see paragraphs 35-50.
527 Spilled loads, or anything that falls from a vehicle or anywhere else that could
be a danger, should be removed or cleaned up as soon as possible.
528 Site operators should make sure that waste containers are available:
n wherever used packaging or other refuse is likely to gather;
n are big enough; and
n are suitable for their intended use.
529 Wherever it is practical, site operators should make sure that there are
specified places for moveable objects, and that whenever they are being left
overnight or for long periods of time, they are kept in their proper place.
Maintenance areas
530 Where maintenance work has to be carried out on or near roads, vehicle traffic
should be kept away from those doing the work. This may involve using cones or
barriers, or closing the route to vehicles.
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