Fitness for height, recorded before they climb.
Construction Regulations 2014 treat work at height as a named fitness duty, not a nice-to-have. Care Net assesses the worker against your fall protection plan and issues the certificate of fitness.
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The fall protection plan asks for proof
Work at height stopped
If the inspector cannot find fitness records for the people named in your fall protection plan, the work at height can be stopped on the spot.
Certificate does not mention height
A general certificate that never assessed fitness for height is not the record regulation 10 asks for. We test and record the heights category.
Plan and file do not match
Your fall protection plan, risk assessment and Annexure 3 forms must tell the same story. We help you complete the employer section so they do.
Book heights medicals for the crew
Send the job titles on the fall protection plan. We confirm the category and the date.
Construction Regulations 2014, on the scaffold
Work at height is named in more than one regulation. Here is what each one asks, and what it looks like when the crew is on your site or on a mast.
Certificate of fitness, Annexure 3
A contractor must ensure that every employee has a valid medical certificate of fitness, specific to the construction work to be performed, issued by an occupational health practitioner in the form of Annexure 3.
No valid heights certificate, no climb. Keep copies in the health and safety file and check expiry before the shift, not after.
Read regulation 7 in the gazetteFall protection plan
Your fall protection plan must include the process for evaluating the medical fitness of every employee who works in a fall risk position, and the records of that process.
Heights medicals are a listed element of the plan. The inspector can ask to see the records next to the names.
Read regulation 10 in the gazetteSuspended platform crews
Workers on suspended platforms must be physically and psychologically fit to work safely at height, confirmed by a medical certificate of fitness.
Facade, painting and rope-supported crews need this category before they clip in.
Read regulation 17 in the gazetteThe file that holds the proof
Regulation 7 also requires the contractor to keep a health and safety file on site. Heights certificates and fall protection fitness records live in it. A serious gap can lead to a prohibition notice and stopped work.
Digital copies in My Clinic Online sit alongside the paper file, so a lost folder is not your only copy.
Who we see in this category
Scaffolders, steel erectors, roof workers, painters on suspended platforms, and telecommunications riggers on masts, towers, rooftops and poles. Mining and plant roles that your own fall-risk assessment places at height use the same fitness standard.
Complete the employer section of the Annexure 3 before the medical. New starters who will climb should book a pre-employment medical in this category, not a general one.
