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With so many flat roofs on industrial and commercial buildings here in the UK, duty holders have legal obligations to their employees, contractors and the public.  As you will be aware if you are a property owner, health and safety or facilities manager, or anyone else in control of the work on roofs, it is your responsibility to make sure appropriate safety measures are put in place to enable work at height be carried out safely.  If your property is one where regular access to the roof is a necessity, collective fall protection systems such as roof edge demarcation barriers should be inst

When employing somebody to work at height, it is essential that you ensure that they are competent so today, we’re going to take a look at what exactly competency means and how you can determine whether a person is competent to carry out the work or not.  Competency is defined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as “a combination of the experience, knowledge and appropriate qualifications that enables a worker to identify both the risks arising from a situation and the measures needed to deal with them”.  The HSE goes on to state that those working at height must be trained in the sele