Health and safety law 2019 (July 2019)

Chapter 5

Doors and gates

[ch 5: page 84]

Safety features should be incorporated into particular types of doors and gates, such as sliding or powered doors (Regulation 18).

CWU letter box height victory

Following a long-running communications union CWU campaign to outlaw back-aching, low-level letter boxes, the government announced it would change the Building Regulations. A forthcoming formal review of the regulations will include a legally-binding minimum letter box height.

www.cwu.org/news/cwu-celebrates

www.cwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/19LTB098-CWU-Calls-for-a-Ban-on-Low-Level-Letterboxes-and-for-the-UK-to-adopt-the-EU-Standard.pdf


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