Workplace Safety and Health (Scaffolds) Regulations 2011 · As enacted · Part V · Suspended Scaffolds
49. Personal protective equipment for users of suspended scaffolds
Feedback & supportIt shall be the duty of —
the employer of any person who uses or is to use any suspended scaffold in a workplace; or
the principal under whose direction any person uses or is to use any suspended scaffold in a workplace,to provide to the person —
a safety harness attached with a shock absorbing device; and
sufficient and secured anchorage by means of an independent life line or other equally effective means.
It shall be the duty of the person who uses any suspended scaffold in a workplace to use the safety harness attached with a shock absorbing device provided to him.
[Deleted by S 434/2024 wef 01/06/2024]
Subregulation 1
It shall be the duty of —
the employer of any person who uses or is to use any suspended scaffold in a workplace; or
the principal under whose direction any person uses or is to use any suspended scaffold in a workplace,to provide to the person —
a safety harness attached with a shock absorbing device; and
sufficient and secured anchorage by means of an independent life line or other equally effective means.
Subregulation 2
It shall be the duty of the person who uses any suspended scaffold in a workplace to use the safety harness attached with a shock absorbing device provided to him.
Subregulation 3
[Deleted by S 434/2024 wef 01/06/2024]