The employer shall ensure at a construction site of a building or other construction work that where, on or adjacent to the work place of any construction site to which these rules apply, there is water into which, a building worker employed for work on such site, in the course of his employment, may fall and has the risk of drowning, suitable rescue equipment is provided and kept in an efficient state for ready use and measures are taken to arrange for the prompt rescue of such building worker from the danger of drowning and where there is a special risk of such fall from the edge of adjacent land or from a structure adjacent to or above the water or from floating stage on such water, secured fencing is provided near the edge of such land, structure or floating stage, as the case may be, to prevent such fall.
Such fencing may be removed or allowed to remain erected for the time and to the extent, necessary for the access of building workers and the movement of materials for such work.
CHAPTER VI TRANSPORT AND EARTH MOVING MACHINERY