The Work at Height Regulations 2005 require competence for anyone who works at height, plans it, or supervises it. Here is who needs training, what it must cover, and where an online awareness course is not enough.

Avoid, prevent, minimise — and why a harness is the last resort, not the first. Worked through with a real example.

Ladders are not banned. The 1-in-4 rule, securing, three points of contact, pre-use checks and when a ladder is the wrong choice.

There is no minimum height. What the regulations actually require, the Regulation 6 hierarchy, and why the two-metre rule is a myth.

Who needs training, where the legal duty actually comes from, why people handling is different, and why a certificate is not compliance.

Why most handling injuries build cumulatively rather than from one heavy lift, the warning signs, and what actually reduces them.

What MHOR 1992 actually requires: avoid, assess, reduce, inform. Plus what the regulations deliberately do not say.

Task, Individual, Load, Environment — what each covers, how TILE differs from LITE and TILEO, and turning findings into fixes.

There is no legal lifting limit in the UK. What the 25kg guideline actually means, and the reductions nobody applies.

The lift step by step, why keeping the load close matters most, and three myths worth killing including the 25kg one.