WORKPLACE INSPECTION NO 13: PORTABLE LADDERS

• Inspector:

• Supervisor:

• Company:

• Location:
  Address

• Date:

  Date

INSPECTION

• Portable ladders are suitable for the tasks being undertaken?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladders marked industrial use only and minimum SWL of 120kg?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Metal ladders are not used around electrical hazards and are marked with "DO NOT USE WHERE ELECTRICAL HAZARD EXISITS"?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladder in good condition (no damage e.g split, bent, corroded parts, missing parts)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Documented inspections of ladders conducted every 3 months?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Register of portable ladders maintained on site, detailing date of last and next inspection?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladders are marked with identifying number and last inspection date?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• No persons working off portable ladders?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Portable ladders only used as short term solution for access where no other options are practicable (e.g compliant stairs)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Portable Ladders extend 1m above access / working platforms?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Portable Ladder angled on an approximate 4 to 1 ratio (1 metre horizontally for every 4 metre vertically)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladders on firm level ground and footing (no makeshift foundations) and safe distance from edge of open floors/penetrations?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladders not restricting pedestrian/vehicle routes or positioned where it could be hit by passing pedestrians/vehicles?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Base and top of ladder firmly secured against movement by fixing or tying?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ties at the base or top of a ladder are attached to the stiles of the ladder, not the rungs?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Ladders stored in safe manner (e.g not exposed to weather or other materials being stored on them)?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Working Platform Ladders 450mm wide, have adequate edge protection provided at the open side and ends?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

• Working Platform Ladders guardrails height of not less than 900mm above the platform?

  Yes

  No

  N/A

Inspection Team

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