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Falls from height are still the single biggest killer at work in Great Britain. In 2024/25 they accounted for 35 of the 124 workers killed in work-related accidents, which is more than a quarter of the total.
So it’s a fair question: does the law actually require you to be trained before you work at height?
The short answer is that there’s no single government c...
Falls from height are still the single biggest killer at work in Great Britain. In 2024/25, 35 of the 124 workers who died in work-related accidents fell from a height, making it the most common cause of all (HSE, 2025).
Here’s the thing: nearly every one of those falls was preventable.
And prevention starts with one document. A working at height risk assessment...
Falls from height are the single biggest cause of workplace death in Great Britain. Not machinery. Not vehicles. A fall.
That is exactly why the Work at Height Regulations 2005 exist. And here is the good news: once you strip away the legal wording, they come down to a handful of common-sense principles that any employer, manager or worker can follow.
In this gu...