Taking Ownership of Your Work-at-Height Safety

On 19 March 2024, the Work-at-Height (WAH) Symposium 2024 convened under the theme "Taking Ownership of Your Work-at-Height Safety". This event was a platform to heighten awareness of individual responsibilities in WAH safety. It congregated industry frontrunners, safety specialists and professionals to discuss innovative solutions and exchange best practices in preventing and protecting against falls.

Eight industry associations, including SLA, pledged to advance WAH safety, urging their member companies' executives to:

• Establish WSH reporting channels for their workers;
• Empower workers to stop work if they feel unsafe;
• Include WAH safety performance and compliance criteria in procurement policies and have sub-contractors who are committed to WSH be under their preferred list of companies for tendering; and
• Track sub-contractors’ WAH performance and ensure they are bizSAFE Level 3 certified.