Working at Height APPG
First Registered: 20/12/2017 • Last updated on: 06/10/2021
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TwitterFalls from height and falling objects from height account for the highest number of preventable fatalities and injuries across all sectors in UK industry. The APPG will seek to understand the root causes and propose effective, sensible measures to reduce this toll and send people safely home from work.
1. Preventing serious injury and fatalities while working at height
01/05/2019 - Parliamentary Research
Found: Preventing serious injury and fatalities while working at height By Bukky Balogun, Alex Adcock, Gloria Tyler
2. MGN 410 (M+F) Amendment 1 work at height regulations 2010
16/06/2021 - Maritime and Coastguard Agency
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Found: Vessels (Health
and Safety
at Work) (Work at Height)
Regulations 2010
Notice to all
Ship Owners
3. Consultation for code of safe working practice for merchant seafarers 4th Amendment 2019
22/08/2019 - Maritime and Coastguard Agency
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Found:
17
WORK AT HEIGHT
17.1
Introduction
17.1.1
Anyone working in a location where there is
4. Smart motorways design scheme drawings
01/02/2021 - Highways England
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Found: 13mBoxSafety Fence height 0.95 mSafety Fence height 0.87 mSafety Fence height 0.83 mSafety Fence height 0.64 mSafety
5. MGN 410 (M+F) Amendment 1 work at height regulations 2010
16/06/2021 - Maritime and Coastguard Agency
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Found: Guidance
MGN 410 (M+F) Amendment 1 work at height regulations 2010
This notice concerns the
1. Working at Height: Safety
02/05/2019 - Westminster Hall
1: preventing serious injury and fatalities while working at height.It is a pleasure to serve under your - Speech Link
2. Building Safety
20/01/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: inform the House today that I am minded to lower the height threshold for sprinkler requirements in new buildings - Speech Link
2: polyethylene core should not be used on buildings of any height. How many additional buildings does he estimate - Speech Link
3: building with ACM cladding—bar 10—has a plan and is working with my Department to commence or complete remediation - Speech Link
3. Covid Contracts: Judicial Review
24/02/2021 - Commons Chamber
1: of unparalleled global demand. That often meant working at incredible speed, especially in the early months - Speech Link
2: Secretary said, there was a shortage of PPE and those working on the frontline were not protected?While - Speech Link
3: Cygnus back in 2016, but also from constituents working in the NHS who have reported this directly to me - Speech Link
4. Leaseholders and Cladding: Greenwich and Woolwich
16/11/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: that leaseholders in buildings over 18 metres in height, whether those buildings are covered in ACM or - Speech Link
2: recognise that the Government cannot argue that height should not be the sole, or even the main, determinant - Speech Link
3: to cover buildings between 11 and 18 metres in height. The Government should re-open the private sector - Speech Link
5. Drones: Consultation Response
07/01/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: want to assure the House that my department is working extremely closely with airports, the Home Office - Speech Link
2: legislative change introducing the exclusion zone and height restrictions and ensuring that there will be registration - Speech Link
3: Commission has proposed a number of measures. We are working very closely with our European partners on implementing - Speech Link
asked by: Andy McDonald
07/12/2020
... to ensure that staff (a) do not work beyond the legal maximum number of hours and (b) receive stipulated daily and weekly rest periods. 2. Working Hours
asked by: Andy McDonald
07/12/2020
... and that they receive stipulated daily and weekly rest periods following the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling based on the case Federacion de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE. 3. Working Hours
asked by: Mark Hendrick
18/12/2020
... what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of adopting a four-day working week. 4. Remote Working
asked by: Charlotte Nichols
25/01/2021
... to encourage them to send home employees who are able to work remotely. 5. Flexible Working
asked by: Andrea Leadsom
19/11/2020
... what plans he has in the forthcoming employment bill to include flexible working as standard; and what assessment he has made of the potential effect on that matter on levels of work life balance.
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6 Current APPG Officers
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Alison Thewliss
Chair & Registered Contact
Scottish National Party - Glasgow Central
Joined: 20th December 2017Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax , Bahá'í Faith , British Hindus , British Sikhs , Building Communities , Cameroon , Domestic Violence and Abuse , Drug Policy Reform , Fair Business Banking , Fairs and Showgrounds , Financial Markets and Services , Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency , Gaps in Support , HIV and AIDS , Hospitality and Tourism , Immigration Detention , India , Infant Feeding and Inequalities , International Students , Jazz Appreciation , Leasehold and Commonhold Reform , Markets , Maternity , Mortgage Prisoners , Museums , Ovarian Cancer , Stem Cell Transplantation and Advanced Cellular Therapies , Students , Terminal Illness , Theatre , Ticket Abuse , United Nations Women , University , Votes at 16 , Yemen
Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax , Cleaning and Hygiene , Darts , Food and Drink , Peak District , Pensions , Taxation , Trailer and Towing Safety , Uzbekistan
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community , BBC , Carbon Monoxide , Channel 4 , Cricket , East Coast Main Line , Fairtrade , Football Supporters , Haemophilia and Contaminated Blood , Homelessness , Hospitality and Tourism , ITV , Kashmir , Knife Crime and Violence Reduction , Kurdistan Region in Iraq , Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) , Northern Culture , Northern Powerhouse , Pharmacy , Rail in the North , Rowing , Rugby League , Sixth Form Education , State Pension Inequality for Women , Students , Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention , Trailer and Towing Safety , Transport Across the North , Ukraine , University , Waterways , Woods and Trees , Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
Antibiotics , Customer Service , Electoral Reform , Gardening and Horticulture , Hong Kong , Human Microbiome , Immigration Detention , Legal Aid , Small and Micro Business , Universal Credit , Woods and Trees , Youth Employment
Contact Details
Show/HideRegistered Contact:
Alison Thewliss MP, House of Commons , London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 6447.
Email: alison.thewliss.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Connect, Third Floor, Millbank Tower, London SW1P 4QP. Tel: 020 7592 9592
Email: appgworkingatheight@connectpa.co.uk
Secretariat:
Connect acts as the group's secretariat. https://connectpa.co.uk/
Group's Website:
Benefits in Kind
Show/Hide28 Jan 2021
Connect
Connect PA is paid by Access Industry Forum to act as the group's secretariat From : 28/01/2021 To : 27/01/2022
£21,001
28 Jan 2020
Connect
Connect is paid by Access Industry Forum to act as the group's secretariat From : 28/01/2020 To : 27/01/2021
£42,001
17 Oct 2018
GK Strategy
Secretariat From : 17/10/2018 To : 16/10/2019
£46,501
17 Oct 2018
Connect Communications
Connect Communications is paid by Access Industry Forum to act as the group's secretariat From : 17/10/2018 To : 16/10/2019
£19,501
17 Oct 2017
GK Strategy
Secretariat From : 17/10/2017 To : 16/10/2018
£46,501
No direct financial benefits are on record for the Working at Height APPG
Former APPG Officers
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Robert Largan
Vice Chair
Conservative - High Peak
Joined: 24th February 2020Departed: 21st April 2021
Events , Mining and Quarrying , Peak District , Personal Banking and Fairer Financial Services
Acquired Brain Injury , British Museum , Carbon Monoxide , Chile , Dalits , Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT+) Rights , Magnitsky Sanctions , Museums , Russia , Spain
David Hanson
Vice Chair
Labour - Former Member for Delyn
Joined: 20th December 2017Departed: 5th November 2019
Hannah Bardell
Officer
Scottish National Party - Livingston
Joined: 20th December 2017Departed: 5th November 2019