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  Just had a look at this HSE document which I have not seen before, interesting
  point :-

  All ladders above 6m (19.68 ft) must be secured, haven't heard this one before.
 
  http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/misc613.pdf

  Anyone else been advised of this.

  Doug

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  Spotted another new item :-

  Self employed claeners cannot use footed ladders, interesting reading.

  Doug

[poleman]

It is good advice to a point…however its 3 years old and since than we have had the working at height regulations (April 05). So that window cleaners can comply with WAHR a new set of guidelines in safe use of ladders is being sorted as we speak and should be due out this summer.

Andy     

[baldeagle]

I don't think it means "Thou shalt not have a footed ladder, as a self employed person"

What it's saying is "Self employed persons, by definition, are mainly lone workers, so there is nobody, [usually], available to foot the ladder"

Whoever writ this, has not read it out aloud, probably he has read it to himself; and because he knows what he meant to say, he thinks everyone else does!

Demonstrates two points really

a Always get somebody else to read wot you writ, [when I was writing training manuals for BT, it was called "idiot testing"], and you tried it out on several idiots!

b Younger HSE staff are being employed, and they are suffering from the decline in educational standards that is prevalent nowadays, and are less capable of structuring English grammar.

Baldeagle