Legislation and Guidance

Guidance Documentation

Below are the complete set of safe use documents in PDF format ready for you to download. Are we missing anything? Please let us know. Thank you.

• Beam Clamps
• Chain Slings
• Eyebolts
• Fibre Rope Slings
• Flat Woven Webbing Slings
• General Purpose Slinging Practice
• Hand Chain Blocks
• Hand Operated Chain Lever Hoists
• Horizontal Plate Clamps
• Jacks
• Lifting Beams and Spreader Beams
• Manual and Power Operated Blocks (Hoists)
• Mobile Gantries
• Power Operated Blocks (Hoists)
• Roundslings
• Runways
• Slewing Jib Cranes
• Travelling Girder Trolleys
• Vertical Plate Clamps
• Winches Used for Lifting
• Wire Rope Grip and Pulling Lifting Machines
• Wire Rope Slings
• Shackles

HSE (Health & Safety Executive) Legislation

All of the HSE documentation below can be found on the HSE website.

Manual Handling

According to the HSE, Manual Handling is defined as "...any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by hand or bodily force".

• Manual Handling Assessment Chart Tool
• Getting to grips with Manual Handling
• Are you making the best use of Lifting and Handling aids?

Lifting Regulations

• A guide to the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
• How the regulations apply to Forestry
• The use of winches in directional felling and taking down
• Guidance on the safe use of magnetic lifting devices
• Handling kerbs - reducing the risks of Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Lifting incident review 1998

Work at Height Regulations

• Work at Height Regulations 2005: A brief guide
• Height safety - Absolutely essential health & safety information
• Consideration for the use of personal fall protection equipment
• Guidance of the selection, use, maintenance and inspection of retractable type fall arresters
• Guidance on inspecting personal fall protection equipment
• Guidance on the use of single and twin energy absorbing lanyards
• Guidance on rescue during working at height
• Guidance on inspecting eyebolts used for personal fall protection purposes
• Reference information for working at height
• Working platforms (non-integrated) on forklift trucks.  Guidance note PM28 (3rd Edition)
• Safe use of ladders and stepladders - an employers' guide
• Top tips for ladder and stepladder safety