RIIWHS204D Work safely at heights
RIIWHS204D Work safely at heights
Work safely at heights
Identify work requirements
- Access, interpret and apply height safety procedures and ensure the work activity is compliant
- Inspect site to determine layout and physical condition, condition of structures, prevailing weather conditions, equipment requirements and potential hazards
- Adhere to WHS requirements
- Identify, select and check safety equipment for serviceability
- Identify, manage and report potential risks and hazards
Identify work procedures and instructions
- Consult with authorised personnel to select materials, tools and equipment and check for serviceability
- Select, wear and care for personal protective equipment
- Inspect/install fall protection and perimeter protection equipment
- Identify approved methods of moving tools and equipment to work area and minimise potential hazards associated with tools at heights
- Ensure safety system has been installed correctly
- Select and install appropriate signs and barricades
Access and install equipment
- Consult with authorised personnel to ensure anchor fall protection and associated equipment is correctly fitted and adjusted
- Ensure all required equipment is installed
- Use recommended methods to access work area for people, tools and equipment
- Locate tools and materials to eliminate or minimise the risk of items being knocked down
Perform work at heights
- Check access from ground to work area and ensure it is safe
- Keep fall equipment in place and adjusted appropriately for movement during work
- Undertake manual handling of materials and equipment
- Locate materials and equipment ensuring that they are safely secured and distributed
- Check safety system periodically for compliance
- Monitor risk control measures to ensure that they are effective and appropriate
- Reassess risk control measures, as required, in accordance with changed work practices and/or site conditions and undertake alterations
Clean up work area
- Consult with authorised personnel to ensure safety system is dismantled and removed
- Clear work area and dispose of or recycle materials
- Clean, check, maintain and store tools and equipment