The Work at Height Regulations 2005

includes the exploration of parts of mines which are no longer worked;

means climbing, traversing, abseiling or scrambling over natural terrain or man-made structures;

has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2(1) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015;

means any lock gate or other gate which can close off the entrance to the dock or part of the dock from the sea or other waterway but does not include any gate on land which controls access by vehicles or pedestrians;

means— (a) the loading or unloading of goods on or from a ship at dock premises;

means any dock, wharf, quay, jetty or other place at which ships load or unload goods or embark or disembark passengers, together with neighbouring land or water which is used or occupied, or intended to be used or occupied, for those or incidental activities, and any part of a ship when used for those or incidental activities;

means a surface which would be liable to fail if any reasonably foreseeable loading were to be applied to it;

means a container as defined in regulation 2 of the Freight Containers (Safety Convention) Regulations 1984;

includes— (a) animals;

includes a fixed ladder and a stepladder;

includes rope, chain or webbing;

means— (a) a fall prevention, work restraint, work positioning, fall arrest or rescue system, other than a system in which the only safeguards are collective safeguards;

means any description of vessel when used solely for sport or recreation, other than for carrying fare paying passengers;

means a self-employed person who conducts an undertaking of a prescribed description for the purposes of section 3(2) of the 1974 Act;

includes every description of vessel used in navigation, other than a ship which forms part of Her Majesty's Navy.

means suitable in any respect which it is reasonably foreseeable will affect the safety of any person;

means any structure used for the purpose of supporting a working platform and includes any plant used for that purpose.

means the Health and Safety at Work etc.

means regulation 8(d)(ii), so far as it relates to paragraph 1 in Part 3 of Schedule 5, and that paragraph.

means the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999;

includes all lift trucks, locomotives and rolling-stock, and trailers and semi-trailers and other mechanical plant which moves on wheels, tracks, skids or any combination thereof;

means any description of craft used for the transport of goods or passengers or the storage of goods or the accommodation of passengers on water, whether used in navigation or not;

means– (a) sanitary conveniences;

means— (a) work in any place, including a place at or below ground level;

means any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work (whether exclusively or not) and includes anything to which regulation 8 and Schedules 2 to 6 apply;