6 Positioning and installation
1 Every employer shall ensure that lifting equipment is positioned or installed in such a way as to reduce to as low as is reasonably practicable the risk—
(a) of the equipment or a load striking a person; or
(b) from a load—
(i) drifting;
(ii) falling freely; or
(iii) being released unintentionally;
and it is otherwise safe.
2 Every employer shall ensure that there are suitable devices to prevent a person from falling down a shaft or hoistway.