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H1: Fall Protection: Technical Guidance Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (Mewps)

The document provides technical guidance on fall protection requirements when using different types of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs). It recommends wearing a full body harness with a short lanyard when working from boom-type MEWPs, including static and mobile booms, to keep workers restrained within the platform. For vertical lifts like static and mobile verticals, fall protection is generally not required but a risk assessment should determine protection needs. Workers near or over water may need a harness or life jacket depending on the fall or drowning risks identified in a job-specific assessment.

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H1: Fall Protection: Technical Guidance Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (Mewps)

The document provides technical guidance on fall protection requirements when using different types of mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs). It recommends wearing a full body harness with a short lanyard when working from boom-type MEWPs, including static and mobile booms, to keep workers restrained within the platform. For vertical lifts like static and mobile verticals, fall protection is generally not required but a risk assessment should determine protection needs. Workers near or over water may need a harness or life jacket depending on the fall or drowning risks identified in a job-specific assessment.

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H1: FALL PROTECTION

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Technical guidance Mobile Elevating


Work Platforms (MEWPs)
Boom type platforms Push Around Verticals (PAV)
and Mast-Climbing Work Platforms
When working from a boom- (MCWP). Local legislation may
type Mobile Elevating Work require a harness in all MEWPs,
Platform (MEWP), it is strongly including in vertical lifts.
recommended that a lanyard
short enough for the wearer to be Working next to or over water
restrained within the platform be
used. The lanyard may contain an A risk assessment should
energy-absorbing device, provided determine whether it is more
it is short enough to restrain the appropriate to wear a harness
wearer within the platform. This to address the fall risk, or a
includes Static Booms (1b) and life jacket to address the risk
Mobile Booms (3b). of drowning.

Vertical lifts The need for a fall protection


system will be the outcome
It is not normally necessary of a job-specific risk assessment
for personnel working from a undertaken prior to work
vertical lift to wear fall protection commencing and taking into
equipment. This includes Static consideration the manufacturer’s
Verticals (1a), Mobile Verticals (3a), operator manual.

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Clunk Click!
Wear a full body harness
with a short lanyard in
boom type platforms.

ALWAYS
ATTACH
THE LANYARD
IN BOOM TYPE
MACHINES

This guidance was originally developed by the


Powered Access Interest Group, a joint committee
of IPAF and the Construction Plant-Hire Association,
with representatives from hire companies and the
HSE. This updated version was approved by the
Strategic Forum – Plant Safety Group on 19.09.17.

www.ipaf.org/andyaccess H1: TE-727-1118-1-en

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