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55. Personal protective equipment for users of hanging scaffolds

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(1)

It shall be the duty of —

(a)

the employer of any person who uses or is to use any hanging scaffold in a workplace; or

(b)

the principal under whose direction any person uses or is to use any hanging scaffold in a workplace,to provide to the person —

(i)

a safety harness attached with a shock absorbing device; and

(ii)

sufficient and secured anchorage by means of an independent life line or other equally effective means.

(2)

It shall be the duty of the person who uses any hanging scaffold in a workplace to use the safety harness attached with a shock absorbing device provided to him.

(3)

[Deleted by S 434/2024 wef 01/06/2024]

Subregulation 1

It shall be the duty of —

(a)

the employer of any person who uses or is to use any hanging scaffold in a workplace; or

(b)

the principal under whose direction any person uses or is to use any hanging scaffold in a workplace,to provide to the person —

(i)

a safety harness attached with a shock absorbing device; and

(ii)

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 hanging 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]

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