Queensland Consolidated Regulations

WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION 2011 - REG 306K

306K What work may be done from single or extension ladder

(1) This section applies if a person conducting a business or undertaking intends to perform construction work that involves a single or extension ladder.

(2) The person must not use, or allow another person to use, the ladder—

(a) to gain access to a place, unless the person using the ladder has at least 2 hands and 1 foot, or 2 feet and 1 hand, on the ladder from when the person is fully on the ladder to when the person is leaving the ladder; or

(b) to do construction work, other than to gain access to a place under paragraph (a) , unless the work is permitted work.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—60 penalty units.