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 Consultation on draft Approved Code of Practice (ACOP): Safe work in confined spaces.

This consultative document seeks your views on the revised version of the Approved Code of Practice (L101) relating to the Confined Spaces Regulations 1997. This revision follows the agreement to review such documents identified by Professor Ragnar Löfstedt.

The amends proposed are designed to bring the document up to date with regulatory and other changes and to make the understanding and use of the document easier, particularly with clarifying the definition of a confined space The amendments also accommodate suggestions made in the earlier consultation in September 2012.

The proposed amendments will be of interest to those involved in work within confined spaces, those who employ or train such people and those that represent them.

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