Wearing Your Life Jacket
Working on or near water becomes particularly popular in the Summer months. Life jackets do save lives and should be worn where there is a risk of entering the water unintentionally

Where it is deemed necessary to wear a life jacket, it is essential that is worn correctly.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has a short video and a guide demonstrating how to fit a life jacket correctly.
The short video and the guide produced by the RNLI demonstrate how to fit a life jacket correctly and explain why it is important to do so.
For further advice when working on or near water please see the guideline for working on or near water or speak to your Safety Adviser.
Water topics

Water: Working On or Near
Guidance to working on or near water.

Boats: Working on
A guide to working and filming from boats.
Diving
A Guide to Scuba Diving and free Diving in both open water and pools.
Floods and Coastal Surges
A guide to inland floods.



