Protective helmets

Council Directive 89/656/EEC of 30 November 1989 on the minimum health and safety requirements for the use by workers of personal protective equipment at the workplace (third individual directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) · European Union

Building work, particularly work on, underneath or in the vicinity of scaffolding and elevated workplaces, erection and stripping of formwork, assembly and installation work, work on scaffolding and demolition work. Work on steel bridges, steel building construction, masts, towers, steel hydraulic structures, blast furnaces, steel works and rolling mills, large containers, large pipelines, boiler plants and power stations. Work in pits, trenches, shafts and tunnels. Earth and rock works. Work in underground workings, quarries, open diggings, coal stock removal. Work with bolt-driving tools. Blasting work. Work in the vicinity of lifts, lifting gear, cranes and conveyors. Work with blast furnaces, direct reduction plants, steelworks, rolling mills, metalworks, forging, drop forging and casting. Work with industrial furnaces, containers, machinery, silos, bunkers and pipelines. Shipbuilding. Railway shunting work. Slaughterhouses.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.