Working at height can be very dangerous - we recently compiled a seven-point height safety checklist to outline some best practices, and then we added another three points just to make sure. In today's blog, we'd like to show you a few examples of how not to work safely at heights; let's see what lessons we can learn from these photographs...
Lesson #1 - Always wear a safety harness!
Lesson #2 - No haphazard pile of paint tins (or whatever else you have lying around) will ever be as safe as a properly-footed ladder.
Lesson #3 - No, seriously, you should be wearing a safety harness. What's to stop you from slipping and falling?
Lesson #4 - A ladder mounted on the scoop of a digger is no substitute for a cherry picker (depressingly, there are loads of other photos like this on the internet!)
Lesson #5 - PPE will only help you up to a point (we found this image on the HSE website, and as they pointed out, the hard hats and hi-vis jackets won't do much to protect those two men if they fall!)
Now that you've seen the mistakes that some people make, visit our Height Safety department and make sure you don't make them too!
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