The minimum height of work where scaffolding is to be used is

Explanation:

General Requirements:

• Proper scaffolds and/or temporary work platforms shall be provided for working at height at elevations 1.8 meters or more where no permanent work platform is available to work safely.
• The elevated work platforms shall have guardrails and provided with ladders for access/egress.
• Where it is not feasible to erect scaffolds, suitable hydraulically elevated work platforms or portable platform with wheel locks / chokes and guardrails shall be used.
• Ladders shall not be used as work platforms.
• Employees or contractors working on unguarded surfaces, steep slopes and similar locations; temporary platform, during scaffold construction; or when
• otherwise exposed to the possibility of falls hazardous to life or limb, shall be secured by full body harness with double lanyard.
• Full body harness with double lanyard shall be worn when work requires persons closer than 1.8 meters from roof edge without parapets, or floor opening