In these Regulations –

• “the 1978 Order” means the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;

• “access” and “egress” include ascent and descent;

• “construction work” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 2 of the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19967;

• “the Executive” means the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland;

• “fragile surface” means a surface which would be liable to fail if any reasonably foreseeable loading were to be applied to it;

• “ladder” includes a fixed ladder and a stepladder;

• “line” includes rope, chain or webbing;

• “the Management Regulations” means the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20008;

• “personal fall protection system” means –

  1. a

     a fall prevention, work restraint, work positioning, fall arrest or rescue system, other than a system in which the only safeguards are collective protection measures; or

  2. b

     rope access and positioning techniques;

• “suitable” means suitable in any respect which it is reasonably foreseeable will affect the safety of any person;

• “territorial sea” means the territorial sea of the United Kingdom adjacent to Northern Ireland and “within the territorial sea” includes on, over and under it;

• “work at height” means –

  1. a

     work in any place, including a place at or below ground level;

  2. b

     obtaining access to or egress from such place while at work, except by a staircase in a permanent workplace,

  where, if measures required by these Regulations were not taken, a person could fall a distance liable to cause personal injury;

• “work equipment” means any machinery, appliance, apparatus, tool or installation for use at work (whether exclusively or not) and includes anything to which regulation 8 and Schedules 3 to 7 apply;

• “working platform” –

  1. a

     means any platform used as a place of work or as a means of access to or egress from a place of work;

  2. b

     includes any scaffold, suspended scaffold, cradle, mobile platform, trestle, gangway, gantry and stairway which is so used.