{"id":13459,"date":"2020-02-12T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/?p=13459"},"modified":"2020-02-12T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:56:00","slug":"working-at-heights-safe-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/2020\/02\/12\/working-at-heights-safe-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Working at Heights &#8211; Safe Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Q: Is wearing a harness necessary in a scissor lift when working at a height of 5m or less and not leaning out?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wearing a harness in a scissor lift is not required unless your risk assessment has identified circumstances where they are necessary (which may include leaning out).<br \/>\nFrom the Best Practice Guidelines for Mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs):<br \/>\n\u201cBefore starting work, a hazard assessment should be completed to decide whether a harness system will be needed to complete the job safely.\u201d<br \/>\nThe height you are working is not a consideration except for working out fall clearance for a fall arrest system.<\/p>\n<p>Visit SiteSafe for safe practices for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitesafe.org.nz\/guides--resources\/practical-safety-advice\/hard-hat-basic-safety2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safety Harness System\u00a0<\/a>and Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Working-at-height-in-NZ-best-practice-guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Best Practice Guidelines for Working From Heights PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/working-from-heights.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13467 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/working-from-heights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Q: Is wearing a harness necessary in a scissor lift when working at a height of 5m or less and not leaning out? Wearing a harness in a scissor lift is not required unless your risk assessment has identified circumstances where they are necessary (which may include leaning out). From the Best Practice Guidelines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}