Identify Scope of Task and Work Activities

In planning your work, it is important to identify and document the scope of the tasks and the proposed safe work practices and activities you will undertake to complete them.

The work done at heights will involve personnel operating in dangerous elevated positions. This can include working on or around:
• Bridges, e.g. inspection and maintenance.
• Buildings, e.g. maintenance, window cleaning, demolition work.
• Roofs, e.g. maintenance, installing television aerials, placing insulation.
• Openings in and open edges of floors or walls.
• Unguarded shafts or excavations.
• Scaffolds.
• Elevated work platforms (EWP).
• Vehicles and other plant.
• Unguarded platforms and walkways.
• Order picking forklifts.
• Forklift platforms.
• Ladders.
• Temporary or permanent unstable structures.
• Fragile or brittle surfaces, e.g. skylights.
• Places where someone could fall into water, acid, or poisonous solutions.
• Places where someone could fall onto sharp or projecting objects, e.g. a picket fence.
• Anywhere tools, equipment or material could be dropped onto someone below.

Work at heights may involve many different tasks such as:
• Construction.
• Maintenance or repair.
• Cleaning.
• Painting.
• Installation of equipment, systems, or plant.
• Disassembly of structures, plant, equipment, or systems.
• Rescue operations.
• Roof construction, skylight installation or maintenance.