CHAPTER 441 - FACTORIES ACT: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
INDEX TO SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
Factories (Appeals to the Board) Rules
Construction (Safety and Health) Regulations
Factories (Electricity) Regulations
Woodworking Machinery Regulations
Factories Act (Application Extension) Order
Factories (Cleanliness of Walls and Ceilings) Regulations
Factories (First-aid) (Prescribed Standard of Training) Regulations
Factories (Prescribed Particulars and Forms) Regulations
Factories (Benzene) Regulations
Factories (Plant Inspection and Examination Fees) Regulations
Factories (Lifting Machinery) (Inspection and Examination) (Fees) Regulations
FACTORIES (APPEALS TO THE BOARD) RULES
[Section 17]
Arrangement of Rules
Rule
[Rules by the Chief Justice]
SI 382 of 1968.
These Rules may be cited as the Factories (Appeals to the Board) Rules.
On any appeal under section 17 of the Act, the parties may adduce evidence.
The Board may in its discretion receive evidence on affidavit either in addition to or in substitution for oral evidence.
CONSTRUCTION (SAFETY AND HEALTH) REGULATIONS
[Sections 68, 74 and 82]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
PART I
PRELIMINARY
3. Notice of commencement of construction work
PART II
SCAFFOLDS AND MEANS OF ACCESS
5. Provision of scaffolds and means of access
6. Supervision of work and inspection of materials
8. Support and stability of scaffolds
10. Gear for suspension of scaffolds
12. Cantilever, jib, etc., scaffolds
14. Skips, buckets, boatswain’s chairs, etc.
18. Scaffolds used by workmen of more than one employer
PART III
WORKING PLATFORMS, WORKING PLACES, GANGWAYS ETC.
21. Boards and planks in working platforms, etc
22. Guard-rails and toe-boards at working places
23. Construction of gangways and runs
24. Guard-rails, etc., for gangways, etc.
25. Platforms, etc., to be unobstructed
28. Openings left in roofs, walls, floors, etc.
29. Sloping roofs and fragile materials
30. Lighting of working places
PART IV
LIFTING MACHINERY
31. Construction and maintenance
32. Support, anchoring and stability
33. Travelling or slewing motion
37. Restriction on use of cranes
38. Marking of safe working load
39. Load not to exceed safe working load
40. Precautions when raising or lowering
41. Testing and thorough examination
44. Testing of anchorage or ballasting
PART V
HOISTS
48. Hoists used only for goods, plant or material
52. Safe working load of hoists
PART VI
LIFTING TACKLE AND PLANT
53. Construction, testing, examination, safe working load
PART VII
EXCAVATIONS, SHAFTS AND TUNNELS
59. Inspection of excavations, etc.
60. Inspection and supervision of timbering
61. Excavations which reduce stability
63. Safeguarding edges of excavations
PART VIII
DEMOLITION
68. Avoidance of danger from electric cables, fire and water
69. Overloading of floors, etc.
71. Shoring to prevent collapse
PART IX
TRANSPORT
74. Maintenance of locomotives, etc.
80. Mechanically propelled vehicles and trailers
82. Vehicles near edge of excavation, etc.
PART X
HEALTH
83. First-aid, ambulance and ambulance room
85. Shelters, accommodation for clothing, accommodation for meals
87. Inhalation of dust or fumes
89. Ventilation of confined spaces
90. Lead compounds and other poisonous substances
PART XI
MISCELLANEOUS
91. Projecting nails and loose material
92. Construction of temporary structures
93. Avoidance of danger from collapse of structure
95. Safety nets, sheets and belts
96. Generation of steam, smoke and vapour
97. Protection from falling material
101. Duties of contractors and employers of workmen
102. Duties of persons employed
104. Mining operations and premises
[Regulations by the Minister]
SI 420 of 1967,
SI 90 of 1974.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
These Regulations may be cited as the Construction (Safety and Health) Regulations, and shall apply—
(a) to building operations;
(b) to works of engineering construction;
as defined in section 3 of the Act, and undertaken by way of trade or business or for the purpose of any industrial or commercial undertaking, or by or on behalf of the Government or any local or other public authority.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“construction work” means any building operation or work of engineering construction;
“employer” means any person who, in connection with any construction work, employs or provides employment for or permits any other person in any manner whatsoever to assist in or about any construction work;
“hoist” means a lifting machine, whether worked by mechanical power or not, with a platform, carriage, cage, skip, bucket or other receptacle, the direction of movement of which is restricted by a guide or guides;
“ladder” does not include a step-ladder;
“ladder scaffold” means a scaffold with a working platform which is supported directly or by means of a crutch or bracket on a rung or rungs of a ladder;
“lifting machine” means a crab, winch, pulley block or gin wheel used for raising or lowering, and a hoist, crane, sheer legs, excavator, drag line, piling frame, aerial cableway, aerial ropeway or overhead runway;
“lifting tackle” means chain slings, rope slings or similar gear, and rings, links, hooks, plate clamps, shackles, swivels or eye bolts;
“scaffold” means any temporary structure on or from which persons perform work in connection with any construction work, and any temporary structure which enables persons to obtain access to or which enables materials to be taken to any place at which such work is performed, and includes any working platform, gangway, run, ladder or step-ladder (other than an independent ladder or step-ladder which does not form part of such a structure) together with any guard-rail, toe-board or other safeguards and all fixings, but does not include a lifting machine or a structure used merely to support such a machine or to support machinery or plant;
“suspended scaffold” means a scaffold suspended by means of ropes or chains, and capable of being lowered or raised by such means, but does not include a boatswain’s chair or similar appliance;
“trestle scaffold” includes a scaffold in which the supports for the platform are step-ladders, tripods or similar movable contrivances;
“working platform” includes a working stage;
“workman” means any person who is employed or permitted to assist in any manner whatsoever in or about any construction work;
“work of engineering construction”, as defined in section 3 of the Act, is hereby extended to include—
the construction, structural alteration or repair (including repointing and repainting) or the demolition of all or any of the following:
(a) any steel or reinforced concrete structure other than a building;
(b) any airfield;
(c) any lake defence works or river works; and
(d) any other civil or constructional engineering works of a similar nature to any of the foregoing works.
3. Notice of commencement of construction work
(1) Any person undertaking any construction work which he has reasonable grounds for believing will not be completed within a period of less than six weeks shall, immediately upon the commencement thereof, give to the Commissioner written notice stating the name and address of such person, the place and nature of the construction work, and whether or not any mechanical power is to be used therein and, if so, its nature:
Provided that no such notice shall be required in the case of any construction work which is to be undertaken upon a site where other construction work, in respect of which such a notice has been given, is in progress.
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-regulation (1), the Commissioner may, by statutory order, require the giving of notice in respect of any class of construction work as may be specified in such order, even though the work is to be completed within a period of less than six weeks.
(3) Any notice given under the provisions of this regulation shall be given to the Commissioner through the inspector in the District in which the construction work concerned is to be carried out or, if no such inspector has been appointed, to the Commissioner direct.
If the Commissioner is satisfied that, in the case of any particular class or description of plant or of any special description or method of work, the application of any requirement of these Regulations is, in any class or description of circumstances, not necessary in the interests of safety or not reasonably practicable, he may by certificate in writing (which he may at his discretion revoke at any time) grant an exemption from that requirement, subject to such conditions as may be specified in the certificate.
PART II
SCAFFOLDS AND MEANS OF ACCESS
5. Provision of scaffolds and means of access
Suitable and sufficient scaffolds shall be provided and erected for all construction work which cannot safely be done on or from the ground, or from part of a permanent structure, or from a ladder, or from other available means of support, and sufficient safe means of access shall be provided, so far as is reasonably practicable, to every place at which any person has at any time to work.
6. Supervision of work and inspection of materials
(1) No scaffold shall be erected, or be substantially added to or altered or be dismantled, otherwise than under the immediate supervision of a competent person, and so far as possible by competent workmen possessing adequate experience of such work.
(2) All materials for use in any scaffold shall be inspected by a competent person on each occasion before being taken into use.
(1) Every scaffold and every part thereof shall be of good construction, of suitable and sound material, and of adequate strength for the purpose for which it is used.
(2) Sufficient material shall be provided for and shall be used in the construction of scaffolds.
(3) Timber used for the construction of scaffolds shall be of suitable quality, be in good condition, have the bark completely stripped off, and not be painted or treated in any way so that defects cannot easily be seen.
(4) Metal parts used for scaffolds shall be of suitable quality and be in good condition and free from corrosion or other patent defect likely to affect their strength materially.
8. Support and stability of scaffolds
(1) Every scaffold shall be securely supported or suspended and shall where necessary be sufficiently and properly strutted or braced to ensure stability.
(2) All structures and appliances used as supports for scaffolds shall be of sound construction, have a firm footing or be firmly supported, and shall where necessary be sufficiently and properly strutted or braced to ensure stability.
(3) Standards and uprights of scaffolds shall be, where practicable, vertical or slightly inclined towards the building or structure and be sufficiently close to ensure stability. Displacement of the foot of any standard shall be prevented by sinking into the ground or by placing the standard on a suitable plank or base plate, or by other adequate arrangements to prevent slipping.
(4) No part of a building or structure shall be used as support for part of a scaffold unless it is sufficiently strong and stable to afford safe support.
(5) Putlogs shall be straight or approximately straight. Putlogs having one end supported by a wall shall have a flat supporting surface at that end. Distances between putlogs shall be fixed with due regard to the nature of the platform and the load it will bear.
Any travelling scaffold or scaffold which can be moved on wheels or skids shall, unless it is a suspended or slung scaffold, be—
(a) constructed with due regard to stability and, if necessary for stability, adequately weighted at the base;
(b) used only on a firm and even surface, not so sloping as to involve risk of instability of the scaffold or any load thereon;
(c) adequately secured to prevent movement when any person is working upon it;
(d) moved only by the application of force at or near the base.
10. Gear for suspension of scaffolds
(1) Chains, ropes and lifting gear used for the suspension of scaffolds shall be of sound material, adequate strength and suitable quality, and in good condition.
(2) No rope other than a wire rope shall be used for the suspension of a scaffold:
Provided that this sub-regulation shall not apply in the case of a suspended scaffold which is raised or lowered otherwise than by means of winches, nor in the case of equipment used in lieu of a suspended scaffold in accordance with the provisions of regulation 14.
(3) Chains, ropes and metal tubes used for the suspension of a scaffold, other than a suspended scaffold, shall be properly and securely fastened to safe anchorage points and to the scaffold ledgers or other main supporting members, and shall be so positioned as to ensure stability of the scaffold, and shall be approximately vertical and be kept taut.
(4) Every scaffold suspended by means of ropes or chains shall be secured so as to prevent undue horizontal movement while it is used as a working platform.
All scaffolds shall be properly maintained and every part shall be kept so fixed, secured or placed in position as to prevent, so far as is practicable, accidental displacement.
12. Cantilever, jib, etc, scaffolds
(1) No cantilever or jib scaffold shall be used unless it is adequately supported, fixed and anchored on the opposite side of the support, has outriggers of adequate length and cross-section, and is, where necessary, sufficiently strutted or braced to ensure rigidity and stability.
(2) No figure or bracket scaffold supported or held by dogs, spikes or similar fixings liable to pull out of the stonework or brickwork in which they are gripped or fixed shall be used.
No suspended scaffold shall be used unless it complies with the following requirements:
(a) the platform shall be at least 500 millimetres wide and of adequate strength:
(b) the outriggers or other means of support are properly constructed, of adequate length and strength and properly installed and secured:
(c) the platform shall be provided with a suitable guardrail and toe-board or other efficient means to prevent the fall of persons or articles from the platform.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
14. Skips, buckets, boatswain’s chairs, etc.
(1) A skip, bucket, basket, boatswain’s chair or similar equipment shall not be used in lieu of a suspended scaffold, except in special circumstances where the work to be performed therefrom is of such short duration as to make the use of a suspended scaffold unreasonable, or where the use of a suspended scaffold is not reasonably practicable, and such equipment shall only be so used under the supervision of a responsible person.
(2) No equipment as is mentioned in sub-regulation (1) shall be used in lieu of a suspended scaffold unless—
(a) the equipment, including all the suspension ropes or chains and their means of support, are of good construction, sound material, adequate strength and free from patent defect, and the ropes or chains are securely attached; and
(b) suitable measures are taken to prevent spinning or tipping and to prevent any occupant from falling therefrom.
(3) No skip, bucket or basket shall be used in lieu of a suspended scaffold unless it is—
(a) at least 800 millimetres deep; and
(b) either constructed wholly of suitable metal or carried by two strong bands of suitable metal which are properly fastened and continue round the sides and bottom.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
(1) No trestle scaffold shall be used—
(a) if constructed with more than three tiers; or
(b) if it has a working platform more than 4,500 metres above the ground or floor or other surface upon which the scaffold is erected.
(2) No trestle scaffold shall be erected on a scaffold platform unless—
(a) the width of the platform is such as to leave sufficient clear space for the transport of materials; and
(b) the trestles or uprights are firmly attached to the platform and adequately braced to prevent displacement.
(3) No trestle scaffold shall be erected on a suspended scaffold.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
Ladder scaffolds shall be of adequate strength and used only for light work.
Scaffolds in use, together with all fittings and connections, shall be inspected at least once a week by a competent person deputed by the employer, and a record in the form set out in the First Schedule shall be kept of all such inspections.
18. Scaffolds used by workmen of more than one employer
Where a scaffold or part thereof is to be used by or on behalf of an employer, other than the employer for whose workmen it was first erected, the first-mentioned employer shall, before such use, and without prejudice to any other obligations imposed upon him, take express steps, either personally or by a competent agent, to satisfy himself that the scaffold or part thereof is stable, that the materials used in its construction are sound, and that the safeguards required by these Regulations are in position.
Scaffolds shall not be overloaded and materials shall not be kept thereon unless needed within a reasonable time.
PART III
WORKING PLATFORMS, WORKING PLACES, GANGWAYS, ETC.
(1) Every working platform from which a person is liable to fall more than 2 metres shall be—
(a) closely boarded, planked or plated;
(b) at least 500 millimetres wide if the platform is used as a footing only and not for the deposit of any material;
(c) at least 1 metre wide if the platform is used for the deposit of material;
(d) at least 1,250 metres wide if the platform is used for the support of any higher platform:
Provided that—
(i) the requirements of paragraphs (b) and (c) shall not apply in the case of a platform of a suspended scaffold, or in the case of a platform not less than 500 millimetres wide being the platform of a ladder scaffold or of a trestle scaffold where the work is of such a light nature and the material required for the work is such that a platform less than 1 metre wide can be used with safety, and the platform is not used for the support of any higher platform;
(ii) the requirements of paragraphs (b) and (c) shall not apply in the case of a platform of a scaffold which has to be placed in a confined space, where these requirements are impracticable and the platform is as wide as practicable.
(2) No working platform resting on bearers let into a wall at one end and without other support shall be used unless the bearers are of adequate strength, pass through the wall and are securely fastened on the other side.
(3) Loose bricks, drainpipes, fuel drums or other unsuitable material shall not be used for the construction or support of scaffolds save that bricks or small blocks may, if they provide a firm support, be used to support a platform not more than two feet above the ground or floor.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
21. Boards and planks in working platforms, etc
(1) All boards or planks forming part of a working platform, gangway or run shall be of such thickness and so supported as to prevent undue or unequal sagging and also so supported or secured as to prevent tipping or spreading.
(2) Suitable measures such as the provision of adequate bevelled pieces shall be taken to reduce to a minimum the risk of tripping and to facilitate the movement of barrows where boards or planks which form part of a working platform, gangway or run overlap each other or are not of reasonably uniform thickness where they meet each other or, owing to warping or for some other reason, do not provide an even surface.
22. Guard-rails and toe-boards at working places
(1) Subject to the provision of sub-regulations (3), (4) and (5), every side of a working platform or working place, being a side thereof from which a person is liable to fall a distance of more than 2 metres, shall be provided with a suitable guard-rail or guard-rails of adequate strength, to a height of at least 1 metre above the platform or place and above any raised standing place on the platform or place, and with toe-boards up to a sufficient height, being in no case less than 205 millimetres, and so placed as to prevent so far as possible the fall of persons, materials and tools from such platform or place.
(2) The guard-rails and toe-boards used on a working platform or working place shall be placed on the inside of the uprights, and the space between any toe-board and the lowest guard-rail above it shall not exceed 700 millimetres.
(3) It shall not be necessary to have a guard-rail up to 1 metre above the platform or place where this is impracticable on account of the nature or special circumstances of the work—
(a) if there is a guard-rail up to a height of at least 700 millimetres; or
(b) if, where a guard-rail up to a height of 700 millimetres is impracticable, secure handholds are provided for persons endangered by the absence of a guard-rail up to that height.
(4) Guard-rails and toe-boards required by sub-regulations (1) and (2) may be removed or remain unerected for the time and to the extent necessary for the access of persons or the movement of materials.
(5) The requirements of sub-regulations (1) and (2) shall not apply—
(a) in respect of toe-boards, to the platform of a ladder scaffold or a trestle scaffold, or where and so far as the provision of a toe-board is impracticable on account of the nature or special circumstances of the work;
(b) in respect of guard-rails, to the platform of a ladder scaffold if a secure handhold is provided for the full length of such platform, nor to the platform of a trestle scaffold when the platform is supported on folding trestles or step-ladders;
(c) to a platform provided with suitable guard-rails which is on a sloping surface;
(d) to a temporary platform which is used only by erectors of structural steelwork or ironwork for the purposes of bolting-up, riveting or welding work of such short duration as to make the provision of a platform with guard-rails and toe-boards unreasonable, so long as—
(i) the platform is at least 1 metre wide; and
(ii) there is adequate handhold; and
(iii) the platform is not used for the deposit of tools or materials otherwise than in boxes or receptacles suitable to prevent the fall of the tools or materials from the platform.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
23. Construction of gangways and runs
(1) Every gangway or run from any part of which a person is liable to fall a distance of more than 2 metres shall—
(a) be closely boarded, planked or plated:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to a gangway or run which is part of the fixed equipment of a structure and the boards, plates or planks of which are so secured as to prevent their moving and so placed that the space between adjacent boards, plates or planks does not exceed 25 millimetres, and there is no risk of persons below such gangway or run being struck by tools or other objects falling through such gangway or run;
(b) be at least 500 millimetres wide.
(2) No gangway, run or working platform shall be used for the passage of materials unless it affords a clear passage-way which is adequate in width for the passage of the materials without the removal of the guard-rails or toe-boards and in any case is not less than 700 millimetres wide.
(3) No gangway or run shall be used the slope of which exceeds one vertical to three horizontal.
(4) Where the slope of any gangway or run renders additional foothold necessary, and in every case where the slope exceeds one vertical to four horizontal, there shall be provided proper stepping laths which shall—
(a) be placed at suitable intervals; and
(b) be the full width of the gangway or run, except that they may be interrupted over a width of not more than 100 millimetres to facilitate the movement of barrows.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
24. Guard-rails, etc., for gangways, etc.
All gangways, runs and stairs from which a person is liable to fall a distance of more than 2 metres shall be provided with—
(a) suitable guard-rails of adequate strength to a height of at least 1 metre above the gangway, run or stair;
(b) except in the case of stairs, toe-boards up to a sufficient height, being in no case less than 205 millimetres and so placed as to prevent so far as possible the fall of persons, materials and tools; the space between any such toe-board and the lowest guard-rail above it shall not exceed 700 millimetres:
Provided that the provisions of this regulation shall not apply to a temporary gangway which is used only by erectors of structural steelwork or ironwork for the purposes of bolting-up, riveting or welding work of such short duration as to make the provision of a gangway with guard-rails and toe-boards unreasonable.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
25. Platforms, etc., to be unobstructed
(1) Every platform, gangway, run or stair shall be kept free from any unnecessary obstruction, or projections, material or rubbish and from any projecting nails.
(2) If any platform, gangway, run or stair becomes slippery, appropriate steps shall, as soon as is reasonably practicable, be taken to remedy the defect.
(1) Every ladder and step-ladder shall be of good construction, sound material and adequate strength for the purpose for which is it used.
(2) Ladders or step-ladders shall have a level and firm footing and shall not stand on loose bricks or other loose packing.
(3) Every ladder shall be properly placed and secured so that it cannot move from its position, and if it cannot be so secured it shall be secured as far as is practicable; if the ladder is supported but not securely fixed at the base a person shall, if practicable, be stationed at the base of the ladder to prevent slipping.
(4) No ladder shall be used which has—
(a) a missing or defective rung; or
(b) any rung which depends for its support solely on nails, spikes or other similar fixing.
(5) No wooden ladder shall be used unless it is constructed with—
(a) uprights of adequate strength;
(b) rungs made of straight grained wood free from defect and mortised or securely notched into the uprights;
(c) reinforcing metal ties if the tenons are not secured by wedges.
(1) Where a ladder, other than a crawling ladder, is used as a means of communication or as a working place, the ladder shall rise, or an adequate handhold shall be provided, to a height of at least 1 metre above the place of landing or the highest rung to be reached by the feet of any person working on the ladder, as the case may be, or, if that is impracticable, to the greatest practicable height.
(2) Every ladder or run of ladders rising a vertical distance of over 9 metres shall, if practicable, unless fitted with a safety cage or safety hoops, be provided with an intermediate landing place or places so that the vertical distance between two successive landing places shall not exceed 9 metres.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
28. Openings left in roofs, walls, floors, etc.
Every accessible opening left in a roof, wall or floor of a building or structure, or in a working platform, gangway or run, through which any person is liable to fall a distance of more than 2 metres, shall be provided with suitable guard-rails and toe-boards or coverings to prevent the fall of persons or materials or articles through the opening, except where and when access is required for workmen or for the movement of materials, or for the completion of the building or permanent filling in of the opening.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
29. Sloping roofs and fragile materials
(1) Where any person is employed in connection with any construction work to which these Regulations apply, on a sloping roof without adequate footholds or handholds and having a pitch of more than 10 degrees, suitable and sufficient crawling ladders or duck-boards shall be provided and used, and such ladders or duck-boards shall be secured to prevent their slipping,
(2) Where all the work cannot be done from secured crawling ladders or duck-boards and where the sloping roof has a pitch of more than 30 degrees or the covering of the roof has a slippery surface, and where a person is liable to fall a vertical distance of more than 2 metres from the edges or the eaves, a parapet or barrier shall be provided at the lower edges or eaves of the roof, so as to prevent any person falling off the roof.
(3) Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions, no person shall pass across, or work on or from material which is liable to fracture and is so situated that he would be liable to fall a distance of more than 2 metres, unless suitable and sufficient ladders, crawling ladders or duck- boards are provided, secured, and used.
(4) Prominent warning notices shall, except where the material is glass, be affixed at the approaches to fragile material.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
30. Lighting of working places
Every working place and approach thereto connected with any construction work shall be adequately lighted.
PART IV
LIFTING MACHINERY
31. Construction and maintenance
(1) Every lifting machine and every part thereof including all working gear and all other plant or equipment used for anchoring or fixing such machinery shall be of good mechanical construction, sound material, adequate strength and free from patent defect, and shall be properly maintained.
(2) No crane which has any timber structural member shall be used.
(3) Every part of the framework of every crab or winch, including the bearers, shall be of metal.
(4) Every platform for the person or persons driving or operating a crane, or for any signaller, shall be—
(a) of sufficient area for the persons employed thereon;
(b) close planked or plated;
(c) provided with safe means of access;
(d) provided with guard-rails and toe-boards where necessary to prevent danger.
(5) Every travelling jib crane on rails shall be provided with guards to remove any loose material from the track.
(6) The rail track on which a travelling crane moves shall be of sound construction, properly laid, maintained in good condition, as level as far as practicable, and provided with effective stops at the ends.
(7) Every travelling crane shall be fitted with effective brakes.
(8) Every travelling crane shall be fitted with an effective whistle or other warning device.
32. Support, anchoring and stability
(1) Every lifting machine shall be adequately and securely supported.
(2) The anchoring or fixing arrangements of every lifting machine shall be adequate and secure.
(3) Every temporary attachment or connection of a rope, chain or other plant or equipment used in the erection or dismantling of any lifting machine shall be adequate and secure.
(4) No mobile lifting machine shall be used on a soft or uneven surface or on a slope in circumstances in which the stability of the machine is likely to be affected, unless adequate precautions are taken to ensure its stability.
(5) No fixed crane shall be used unless it is securely anchored or adequately weighted by suitable ballast properly placed on the crane structure so as to ensure stability.
(6) Where the stability of a crane is secured by means of removable weights, a diagram or notice indicating the position and amount of such weights shall be affixed on the crane where it can readily be seen.
33. Travelling or slewing motion
On every stage, gantry or other place where a lifting machine having a travelling or slewing motion is used, an unobstructed passageway not less than 610 millimetres wide shall be maintained between any part of the machine liable so to move and any guard-rails, fencing or nearby fixtures:
Provided that if at any time it is impracticable to maintain such a passage-way at any place or point, all reasonable steps shall be taken to prevent the access of any person to such place or point at any time.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
(1) A crane shall not be erected or dismantled except under the supervision of a competent person.
(2) The jib of a scotch derrick crane shall not be erected between the back stays of the crane.
(3) Effective measures shall be taken to prevent the foot of the king post of any scotch derrick crane from being lifted out of its socket or support whilst in use.
(1) Every drum or pulley round which the chain or wire rope of any lifting machine is carried shall be of suitable diameter and construction for the chain or rope used.
(2) Every chain or rope which terminates at the winding drum of a lifting machine shall be properly secured thereto, and at least two turns of such chain or rope shall remain on the drum in every operating position of the machine.
(1) Every crane, crab and winch shall be provided with an efficient brake or brakes or other safety device which will prevent the fall of the load when suspended and by which the load can be effectively controlled whilst being lowered.
(2) On every lifting machine, every lever, handle or wheel provided for controlling the operation of any part of the machine shall, where practicable, be provided with a suitable locking device to prevent accidental movement or displacement of the lever, handle or wheel, unless it is so placed or constructed as to prevent such accidental movement or displacement, or unless the machine is so constructed that such accidental movement or displacement will not affect the machine in a manner liable to cause danger.
(3) Every lever, handle, wheel, switch or other device provided for controlling the operation of any part of a lifting machine shall have upon or adjacent to it clear markings to indicate its purpose and mode of operation:
Provided that this sub-regulation shall not apply to rotating handles for raising or lowering the load in the case of a winch or non-derricking jib crane not operated by mechanical power.
(4) The rotating handle of any hand operated crane shall be removed when lowering the load on the brake.
(5) Every machine used for raising and suspending a pile driving hammer which operates by gravity shall be provided with adequate means of control, including efficient brakes and there shall be suitable scotches or stops for every such hammer.
(6) On every crane having a derricking jib operated through a clutch, there shall be provided and properly maintained an effective interlocking arrangement between the derricking clutch and the pawl sustaining the derricking drum, which shall ensure that the clutch cannot be disengaged unless the pawl is in effective engagement with the derricking drum, and the pawl cannot be disengaged unless the clutch is in effective engagement with the derricking drum:
Provided that this sub-regulation shall not apply to any crane in which—
(i) the hoisting drum and the derricking drum are independently driven; or
(ii) the mechanism driving the derricking drum is self-locking.
37. Restriction on use of cranes
(1) Without prejudice to sub-regulation (2), the hoisting mechanism of a crane shall not be used for any purpose other than raising or lowering a load vertically, unless no undue stress is imposed on any part of the crane structure or mechanism, and the stability of the crane is not thereby endangered and unless such use is supervised by a competent person.
(2) A crane with a derricking jib shall not be used with the jib at a radius exceeding the maximum radius at which the jib may be worked and which is required to be plainly marked upon the crane by regulation 38.
38. Marking of safe working load
(1) The safe working load or safe working loads and a means of identification shall be plainly marked upon every crane, crab or winch and upon every pulley block, gin wheel, sheer legs or derrick pole or mast used in the raising or lowering of any load.
(2) Every crane with a derricking jib shall have plainly marked upon it the safe working loads at various radii of the jib, and the maximum radius at which the jib may be worked, and be fitted with an accurate indicator clearly visible to the driver, showing the radius of the jib at any time and the safe working load corresponding to that radius.
39. Load not to exceed safe working load
A crane, crab, winch, pulley block, gin wheel, sheer legs, derrick pole, mast or any part of such machine shall not be loaded beyond the safe working load, provided that for the purpose of making tests of any such machine the safe working load may be exceeded by such amount as a competent person appointed to carry out the tests may authorise.
40. Precautions when raising or lowering
(1) Where there is lifted on a crane, crab, winch (other than a piling winch), sheer legs or aerial cableway, a load which is equal to or slightly less than the relevant safe working load and which is not already sustained wholly by the machine, the lifting shall be halted after the load has been raised a short distance and before the operation is proceeded with.
(2) Where more than one lifting machine is required to raise or lower one load—
(a) the plant or equipment used shall be so arranged and fixed that no such lifting machine shall at any time be loaded beyond its safe working load or be rendered unstable in the raising or lowering of the load; and
(b) a competent person shall be specially appointed to supervise the operation.
41. Testing and thorough examination
No crane, crab, winch, hoist, pulley block, gin wheel or sheer legs shall be used for the first time unless it has been tested and thoroughly examined by a competent person or certified by the manufacturer of the machine. A certificate of the test and examination specifying the safe working load or loads shall be kept available for inspection.
Every lifting machine and all plant or gear used for anchoring or fixing such machine shall, as far as the construction permits, be inspected for patent defects by a competent person at least once in every week.
No lifting machine shall be used unless it has been thoroughly examined by a competent person within the previous fourteen months, or, in the case of a hoist, within the previous six months, and following any substantial alteration or repair.
44. Testing of anchorage or ballasting
(1) The whole of the appliances for the anchorage or ballasting of a crane shall be examined by a competent person on each occasion before the crane is erected.
(2) After each erection of a crane on a construction site and after each removal of a crane about or to such a site, or any adjustment to any member of a crane, being a removal or adjustment which involves changes in the arrangements for anchoring or ballasting the crane, the security of the anchorage or the adequacy of the ballasting, as the case may be, shall, before the crane is taken into use, be tested by a competent person, by the imposition either—
(a) of a load of twenty-five per centum above the maximum load to be lifted by the crane as erected at the positions where there is the maximum pull on each anchorage; or
(b) of a less load arrangement to provide an equivalent test of the anchorage or ballasting arrangements.
Where any person engaged on the examination, repair or lubrication of any lifting machine is liable to fall a distance of more than 2 metres there shall, so far as is reasonably practicable, be provided and maintained safe means of access to the place at which the person has to work, with, where necessary, adequate footholds and handholds.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
(1) A lifting machine shall not be operated except by a person trained and competent to operate that machine, except that it shall be permissible for such machine to be operated by a person who is under the direct supervision of a qualified person for the purpose of training.
(2) Where the person operating a lifting machine (other than a hoist subject to Part V) has not a clear and unrestricted view of the load, or, where there is no load, of the point of attachment for a load, and of its vicinity, throughout the operation, except at any place where such a view is not necessary for safe working, there shall be—
(a) appointed and suitably stationed one or more competent persons as may be necessary to give the necessary signals to the operator; or
(b) effective apparatus or devices provided and used to give sound, light or colour signals to the operator.
(3) Every signal for the movement or stopping of a lifting machine or its load, as required by sub-section (2), shall be of a distinctive character and such that the person to whom it is given is able to see or hear it easily.
(4) Devices or apparatus used for giving sound, light or colour signals shall be efficient and properly maintained and signal wires shall be adequately protected from accidental interference.
PART V
HOISTS
Accessible parts of the hoistway of every hoist shall be efficiently protected to prevent any person falling down the hoistway or coming into contact with any moving part of the hoist or falling from a hoist platform at rest at a landing or loading place.
48. Hoists used only for goods, plant or material
(1) The installation arrangements of every hoist shall at any one time be such that it can be operated from only one position.
(2) If the person operating a hoist has not a clear and unrestricted view of the platform, carriage, cage, skip, bucket or other receptacle throughout its travel, except at points where such view is not necessary for safe working, then effective arrangements shall be made for signals for operating the hoist to be given to him from each landing place at which the hoist is used and to enable him to stop the platform, carriage, cage, skip, bucket or other receptacle at the appropriate level.
(3) No person shall ride upon the platform or in the receptacle of a hoist intended only for the carriage of goods, materials, plant or equipment, and there shall be a readily legible notice on the platform or receptacle or at each landing place at which the hoist is used stating that the carriage of persons is prohibited.
(1) In connection with every hoist there shall be provided and maintained efficient devices which will support the platform, carriage, cage, skip, bucket or other receptacle together with its safe working load in the event of failure of the hoist rope or ropes or any part of the hoisting gear.
(2) In connection with every hoist there shall be provided and maintained efficient automatic devices which will ensure that the platform, carriage, cage, skip, bucket or other receptacle does not overrun the highest point to which it is for the time being constructed to travel.
(1) Every hoist used for carrying persons shall be provided with a cage which is so constructed as to prevent any person carried from falling out, or from being trapped between any part of the cage and any fixed structure or any moving part of the hoist, or from being struck by articles or material falling down the hoistway.
(2) Every cage of a hoist used for carrying persons shall be suspended by means of at least two ropes, each rope and its attachments being such as to carry with safety the whole weight of the cage and its safe working load.
(3) In connection with every hoist used for carrying persons, there shall be provided suitable efficient automatic devices which will ensure that the cage comes to rest at a point above the lowest point to which the cage can travel.
(4) Every hoist in which any person is being carried shall be operated from the cage of the hoist only.
Where a hoist is operated by means of a winch, the winch shall be so constructed that the brake is applied when the control lever, handle or switch is not held in the operating position, and the winch shall not be a winch fitted with a pawl and ratchet gear on which the pawl has to be disengaged before the platform, carriage, cage, skip, bucket or other receptacle can be lowered.
52. Safe working load of hoists
The safe working load shall be plainly marked on every hoist platform, carriage, cage, skip, bucket or other receptacle. In the case of a hoist used for carrying persons, the maximum number of persons to be carried at any one time shall also be so marked, and a greater number of persons shall not be so carried.
PART VI
LIFTING TACKLE AND PLANT
53. Construction, testing, examination, safe working load
(1) The following provisions shall be complied with as respects every chain, rope or lifting tackle used in raising or lowering or as means of suspension:
(a) no chain, rope or lifting tackle shall be used unless it is of good construction, sound material, adequate strength, suitable quality and free from patent defect;
(b) a table showing the safe working loads of every kind and size of chain, rope or lifting tackle in use and, in the case of a multiple sling, the safe working loads at different angles of the legs shall be posted in the store in which the chains, ropes or lifting tackle are kept and in prominent positions on the site of the construction work, or, alternatively, in relation to any lifting tackle, the safe working load thereof, or, in the case of a multiple sling, the safe working load at different angles of the legs, shall be plainly marked upon it;
(c) no chain, rope or lifting tackle shall be used for any load exceeding the safe working load, except for the purpose of making tests;
(d) the safe working load of any chain, rope or lifting tackle shall be that determined by a competent person or by the makers thereof in so far as such information from the makers is available;
(e) all chains, ropes and lifting tackle in use shall be thoroughly examined by a competent person at least once in every period of six months.
Every hook used for raising or lowering or as means of suspension shall be of such design as to reduce as for as possible the risk of displacement of the sling or load from the hook.
(1) Every chain sling or rope sling used for raising or lowering on a lifting machine shall be securely attached to the machine, and the method of attachment shall not be a method likely to result in any damage to any part of the sling or to any lifting tackle supporting it.
(2) No double or multiple sling shall be used for raising or lowering if—
(a) the upper ends of the sling legs are not connected by means of a shackle, ring or link of adequate strength: or
(b) the safe working load of any sling leg is exceeded as a result of the angle between the sling legs.
(3) Adequate precautions shall be taken by the use of suitable packing or otherwise to prevent the edges of the load from coming into contact with any sling, rope or chain, so as to cause danger.
(1) Every part of the load shall be securely suspended or supported whilst being raised or lowered and shall be adequately secured to prevent danger from slipping or displacement.
(2) Where by reason of the nature or position of the operation a load is liable, whilst being moved on a lifting machine or lifting tackle, to come into contact with any object so that the object may become displaced, special measures shall be adopted to prevent the danger so far as is reasonably practicable.
(3) Every container or receptacle used for raising or lowering stone, bricks, tiles, slates or similar objects shall be so enclosed, constructed or designed as to prevent the accidental fall of such objects:
Provided that this requirement shall not apply to a grab, shovel or similar excavating receptacle if effective steps are taken to prevent any person being endangered by a fall of objects therefrom.
(4) Goods or loose material shall not be placed directly on a platform of a hoist unless such platform is enclosed or other effective precautions are taken where necessary to prevent the fall of any such goods or material.
(5) No truck or wheelbarrow shall be carried on a hoist platform unless it is effectively scotched or secured on the platform.
(6) No loaded truck or wheelbarrow shall be carried on the open platform of a hoist unless the truck or wheelbarrow is so loaded that no part of the load is liable to fall off.
(7) No load shall be left suspended from a lifting machine unless a competent person is actually in charge of the machine.
(8) No person shall be raised, lowered or carried by a crane except on the driver’s platform.
(1) No person shall be raised, lowered or carried by a power-driven lifting machine except—
(a) on the driver’s platform in the case of a crane; or
(b) on a hoist; or
(c) on a suspended scaffold of a type approved by an inspector; or
(d) as permitted by sub-regulation (2).
(2) A person may be raised, lowered or carried by a power-driven lifting machine otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulation (1) only—
(a) in circumstances where the use of a hoist or of an approved suspended scaffold is not reasonably practicable and the requirements of sub-regulation (3) are complied with; or
(b) on an aerial cableway or aerial ropeway provided that the requirements of paragraphs (b) to (d) of sub-regulation (3) are complied with.
(3) The requirements referred to in sub-regulation (2) are—
(a) that the machine can be operated from one position only;
(b) that any winch used in connection with the machine shall comply with regulation 51.
(c) that no person shall be carried except—
(i) in a suitable chair or cage; or
(ii) in a suitable skip or other receptacle at least 1 metre deep; and any such chair, cage, skip or other receptacle shall be of good construction, sound material, adequate strength and properly maintained, and shall be provided with suitable means to prevent any occupant falling out and shall not contain material or tools liable to interfere with his handhold or foothold or otherwise endanger him; and
(d) that suitable measures shall be taken to prevent the chair, cage, skip or other receptacle from spinning or tipping in a manner dangerous to any occupant.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
(1) A report of the result of any test, examination or inspection required by regulations 41, 42, 43, 44 and 53 shall, as soon as practicable after the completion of such test, examination or inspection, be supplied by the competent person to the person undertaking the construction work.
(2) The Commissioner may from time to time specify the particulars which shall be entered in any register to be kept under the provisions of this regulation by the person undertaking construction work.
(3) A register kept under the provisions of this regulation shall be kept either at the site of the construction work to which it applies or, where this is not practicable, at the office of the person undertaking such construction work.
(4) All reports, certificates and other documents kept in the register and required by these Regulations shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by an inspector. The person keeping any such report, certificate or other document shall send to any inspector such extracts therefrom or copies thereof as the inspector may from time to time require for the purpose of the execution of his duties under the Act.
(5) If it is shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that it is unnecessary or unreasonable in the special circumstances of a case or class of lifting machine, hoist, lifting tackle or plant subject to Parts IV, V and VI to enforce any of the requirements, he may by certificate grant exemption from compliance with such requirements.
PART VII
EXCAVATIONS, SHAFTS AND TUNNELS
59. Inspection of excavations, etc.
The competent person shall keep a record of such inspections which shall be kept available at the site for any examination by an inspector.
(1) Inspection of excavations, etc.
Every part of any excavation, shaft, earthwork and tunnel where persons are employed shall be inspected by a competent person at least once every day during which persons are employed and at the beginning of every shift.
(2) Timbering
An adequate supply of timber of suitable quality or other suitable material shall where necessary be provided and used to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable and as early as is reasonably practicable in the course of the work, danger to any person employed from a fall or dislodgement of earth, rock or other material forming the side or roof of or adjacent to any excavation, shaft, earthwork or tunnel:
Provided that—
(i) this regulation shall not apply where the competent person has certified that the work can be carried out in safety, having regard to the nature and slope of the side of the excavation or earthwork and other circumstances, and that no fall or dislodgement of earth or other material so as to bury or trap a person employed, or so as to strike a person employed, is liable to occur;
(ii) this regulation shall not apply in relation to a person actually engaged in timbering or other work which is being carried out for the purpose of compliance with this regulation, if appropriate precautions are taken to ensure his safety as far as circumstances permit.
60. Inspection and supervision of timbering
(1) No timbering or plant used to retain or support any part of an excavation, shaft, earthwork or tunnel shall be erected or be substantially added to, altered or dismantled except under the direction of a competent person.
(2) No person shall be employed in any part of any excavation, shaft, earthwork or tunnel after any unexpected substantial fall of earth or rock or other material in the vicinity of such part until the sides and, where necessary, the roof, have been inspected by a competent person and such person has certified that the operations may be carried out in safety.
(3) This regulation shall not apply to persons carrying out inspections required by this regulation or actually engaged in timbering or other work for the purpose of making a place safe, if appropriate precautions are taken to ensure their safety as far as circumstances permit.
61. Excavations which reduce stability
No excavation, shaft, earthwork or tunnel which is likely to reduce, so as to endanger any person employed, the security or stability of any part of any structure, whether temporary or permanent, shall be commenced or continued unless adequate steps are taken before and during the progress of the work to prevent danger to any person employed from the collapse of the structure or the fall of any part thereof.
Every accessible part of an excavation, shaft, pit or opening in the ground into or down the side of which a person employed is liable to fall a vertical distance of more than 2 metres shall be provided with a suitable barrier to a height of at least 610 millimetres and as close as is reasonably practicable to the edge, or shall be securely covered:
Provided that the foregoing requirement shall not apply to any part of an excavation, shaft, pit or opening while (and to the extent to which) the absence of such barrier and covering is necessary for the access of persons or for the movement of plant or materials or while (and to the extent to which) it has not yet been practicable to erect such barrier or covering since the formation of that part of the excavation, shaft, pit or opening.
63. Safeguarding edges of excavations
(1) Materials shall be cleared to a distance of at least 1,550 metres from the edges of an excavation, shaft, pit or opening in the ground so as not to endanger persons employed below.
(2) No load shall be placed or moved near the edge of any excavation, pit or shaft where it is likely to cause a collapse of the side of the excavation, pit or shaft and thereby endanger any person.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
In the open face working of any excavation no undercutting shall be allowed and no vertical face shall, so far as is reasonably practicable have a height of more than 1,550 metres but such open face shall be worked in terraces or at an angle of safety. All debris and other loose matter or stones on the surface shall be cleared to a distance of at least 1,550 metres from the edge of the working.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
Every excavation, shaft or tunnel shall have safe and reliable means of entry and exit for persons employed and, as far as is reasonably practicable, the means of entry and exit shall be provided at intervals not exceeding 15 metres.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
All persons working in shafts, tunnels and in other construction work, where there is a similar risk of head injuries, shall be provided with suitable protective hard hats, which shall be worn by the persons concerned.
(1) Explosives at construction sites shall not be handled or used except by or under the immediate control of a competent person with adequate knowledge of the dangers connected with their use, and steps shall be taken to see that, when a charge is fired, persons employed are in positions in which, so far as can be anticipated, they are not exposed to risk of injury from the explosion or from flying material.
(2) In addition to the above requirement, the use of explosives in construction work will be subject to any regulations controlling the use of explosives which are enforced by the Chief Inspector of Mines.
PART VIII
DEMOLITION
68. Avoidance of danger from electric cables, fire and water
Before demolition is commenced and also during the progress of the work—
(a) no electric cable or apparatus which is liable to be a source of danger, other than a cable or apparatus used for the operation, shall remain electrically charged;
(b) all practicable steps shall be taken to prevent danger to persons employed—
(i) from risk of fire or explosion through leakage or accumulation of gas or vapour; and
(ii) from risk of flooding from water mains, sewers or culverts.
69. Overloading of floors, etc.
No floor, roof or other part of a building shall be so overloaded with debris or materials as to render it unsafe.
Before any steelwork or ironwork is cut or released, precautions shall be taken, so far as is practicable, to avoid danger from any sudden twist, spring or collapse.
71. Shoring to prevent collapse
Before demolition is commenced, and also during the progress of the work, precautions shall, where necessary, be taken by adequate shoring or otherwise to prevent, as far as practicable, the accidental collapse of any part of the building or any adjoining building, the collapse of which may endanger any person employed.
All demolition and operations incidental thereto shall be specifically placed under the supervision of a competent person experienced in demolition operations.
PART IX
TRANSPORT
(1) All rails forming a rail track and every gantry or elevated structure carrying rails on which trucks, wagons or any other conveyances are moved by a locomotive or other form of mechanical haulage, shall be properly constructed, adequately supported and maintained so as to ensure the stability of any locomotive, truck, or wagon, etc., on the track.
(2) Every rail track shall be provided at each end with adequate stop blocks, buffers and, where practicable, automatic braking devices.
74. Maintenance of locomotives, etc.
Every locomotive, wagon and truck used for transport purposes shall be properly maintained.
On every level on which mechanical haulage is employed, adequate clearance shall be maintained between the sides of the level and the trucks unless suitable recesses are provided at intervals of not more than 30 metres. All reasonable steps shall be taken to avoid or obviate low clearance and overhead obstructions.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
Every gantry or elevated structure carrying rails on which a locomotive, truck or wagon moves shall be properly constructed and maintained and, at every part along which persons employed have to pass on foot, shall be provided with a suitable and adequate footway.
Every locomotive or other type of mechanical haulage shall be fitted with an effective whistle or other warning device. It shall be the duty of the person in charge of any locomotive, truck, or train of trucks to ensure that such locomotive or truck or the leading unit of a train of trucks has an adequate light affixed to the front of it when in motion in the dark.
No person shall be required or permitted to ride on a buffer or on a running board or in any other insecure position on any locomotive, truck, wagon or other vehicle, except where adequate handholds and footholds are provided.
No person shall be required or permitted to remain on any truck, wagon or other vehicle during the loading or unloading of loose materials by means of a grab, excavator or similar appliance, if he is endangered by so remaining.
80. Mechanically propelled vehicles and trailers
A mechanically propelled vehicle or a mechanically drawn trailer-vehicle if owned or used by, or hired by and operated under the control of, a contractor or employer of workmen at any construction site to which these Regulations apply and used for conveying workmen, goods or materials for the purpose of such operations shall, when being moved at a site where such construction work is carried on (whether or not workmen, goods or materials are actually being conveyed on the vehicle at the time)—
(a) be in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair and not be used in an improper manner; and
(b) not be loaded in such a manner or to such an extent as to interfere with the safe driving or operation of the vehicle.
This regulation shall not apply to locomotives, trucks or wagons on lines of rails.
On every inclined track where trucks are worked, attached to a rope or chain, adequate safety devices shall be provided to prevent danger from runaway trucks.
82. Vehicles near edge of excavation, etc.
Where any vehicle is used for tipping material into any excavation or pit or over the edge of any embankment or earthwork, adequate measures, such as the provision of suitable stop blocks, shall be taken where necessary so as to prevent such vehicle from over-running the edge of such excavation, pit, embankment or earthwork.
PART X
HEALTH
83. First-aid, ambulance and ambulance room
At every site where persons are employed in operations to which these Regulations apply—
(a) (i) a sufficient number of first-aid boxes or cases shall be available in readily accessible positions while work is going on;
(ii) in the case of a site where more than one hundred persons are employed, there shall be provided and available suitable stretchers and a vehicle capable of efficiently carrying an injured person on a stretcher:
Provided that this sub-paragraph shall not apply if specific arrangements have been made for obtaining an ambulance and stretchers promptly, when required, from a hospital or other place in the immediate vicinity of the site;
(iii) a suitable sling stretcher or other appliance for raising injured persons shall be readily available where work is being carried on in an excavation, shaft or other place, the proper removal from which of a seriously injured person is liable to call for the use of such an appliance;
(iv) nothing except appliances or requisites for first-aid shall be kept in a first-aid box or case;
(b) every first-aid box or case shall—
(i) contain such equipment as by law provided which shall be kept clean and in good condition;
(ii) be placed under the charge of a responsible person who shall be capable of giving first- aid and be readily available;
(c) in the following cases, namely:
(i) in the case of a site where more than five hundred persons are intended to be or have been employed at any one time and the number so employed is for the time being more than two hundred and fifty; and
(ii) in the case of a site at which more than two hundred and fifty persons are intended to be or have been employed and which is more than sixteen kilometres from a hospital and at which the number so employed is for the time being more than one hundred;
there shall be provided a properly constructed ambulance room with equipment at least up to such standards as prescribed in the Second Schedule, The room shall be in the charge of a suitably qualified person and a record shall be kept of all cases of sickness or accident treated at the room.
An adequate supply of wholesome drinking water shall be provided at a convenient point or points and clearly marked “Drinking Water”.
85. Shelters, accommodation for clothing, accommodation for meals
There shall be provided, if an inspector so directs, at or in the immediate vicinity of any site where persons are employed in operations to which these Regulations apply—
(a) conveniently accessible and suitable accommodation for taking shelter during interruptions owing to bad weather;
(b) conveniently accessible and suitable accommodation for changing clothing;
(c) adequate and suitable accommodation for taking meals.
Sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for all persons employed at a construction site shall be provided by the main contractor or employer of workmen undertaking the operations.
87. Inhalation of dust or fumes
Where in connection with any grinding, cleaning, spraying or manipulation of any material, there is given off dust or fume of such a character and to such an extent as to be likely to be injurious to the health of persons employed, suitable respirators or otherwise shall be provided to prevent inhalation of such dust or fume.
Where the following processes are carried on, that is to say:
(a) dry grinding of surfaces of metal, stone, concrete or similar materials by means of a wheel or disc driven by mechanical power;
(b) cutting, dressing or carving of stone, concrete or similar materials by means of a portable tool driven by mechanical power;
(c) chipping or scaling of painted or corroded metal surfaces or wire-brushing of such surfaces by mechanical power;
(d) cutting out and cutting off of cold rivets from any structure or part thereof; and
(e) welding or cutting of metals by means of an electrical, oxy-acetylene or similar process; suitable goggles or screens shall be provided to protect the eyes of persons employed in the process.
89. Ventilation of confined spaces
Effective steps shall be taken to secure and maintain the adequate ventilation of every working place in any excavation, pit, hole, adit, tunnel, shaft, caisson, or other enclosed space so as—
(a) to maintain an atmosphere which is fit for respiration; and
(b) to render harmless all fumes, dust or other impurities which may be dangerous or injurious to health.
90. Lead compounds and other poisonous substances
Where any persons are employed in a process in which a lead compound or other poisonous substance is used, there shall be provided for the use of the persons liable to come into contact with such compound or substance adequate and suitable facilities for washing, which shall include nail brushes, soap and towels.
PART XI
MISCELLANEOUS
91. Projecting nails and loose material
No timber or materials with projecting nails shall be used in any work in which they are a source of danger to persons employed or be allowed to remain in any place where they are a source of danger to such persons.
92. Construction of temporary structures
Any temporary structure erected for the purpose of operations to which these Regulations apply, not being a scaffold or a structure to which any other regulation applies, shall be of good construction, sound material and adequate strength and stability, having regard to the purpose for which it is used.
93. Avoidance of danger from collapse of structure
All practicable precautions shall be taken, by the use of temporary guys, stays, supports and fixings or otherwise where necessary, to prevent danger to any person employed through the collapse of any part of a structure during any temporary state of weakness or instability of the structure or part thereof before the structure is completed.
(1) Where on or adjacent to the site of any operations to which these Regulations apply there is water into which a person employed is in the course of his employment liable to fall with risk of drowning, suitable rescue equipment shall be provided and kept ready for use and steps shall be taken to arrange for the prompt rescue of any such person in danger of drowning.
(2) Where appropriate and reasonably practicable, secure fencing of not less than 1 metre in height shall be erected near the water to prevent such fall.
[Am by SI 90 of 1974.]
95. Safety nets, sheets and belts
If the special nature or circumstances of any part of the work renders impracticable compliance with the provisions of these Regulations designed to prevent the fall of any persons engaged on construction work, then those provisions shall be complied with so far as practicable and, except for persons for whom there is adequate handhold and foothold, either there shall be provided—
(a) suitable safety nets or safety sheets; or
(b) safety belts or other contrivances which will so far as practicable enable such persons who elect to use them to carry out the work without risk of serious injury.
96. Generation of steam, smoke and vapour
Measures shall be taken to prevent, so far as practicable, steam, smoke or other vapour from being generated on the site of operations to which these Regulations apply and obscuring any part of the work, scaffolding, machinery or plant where any person is employed.
97. Protection from falling material
Scaffold materials, tools and other objects and material (including waste material) shall not be thrown, tipped, or shot from a height where they are liable to cause injury, but shall be properly lowered; in any place where proper lowering is not practicable and also where any part of a structure is being demolished or broken off, adequate steps shall be taken, where necessary, to protect persons employed from falling or flying debris.
Every employer shall submit such returns and reports and keep such records as the Commissioner may from time to time require, and any employer who fails to render any such return or report or keep such record, or knowingly makes any false statement in any such return, report or record, shall be guilty of an offence.
All parts of machinery as may be a source of danger to any person at a construction site subject to these Regulations shall be securely fenced and guarded.
(1) Before any construction work to which these Regulations apply is commenced, and also during the progress thereof, all practicable steps shall be taken to prevent danger to persons employed from any live electric cable or apparatus which is liable to be a source of danger, either by rendering such cable or apparatus dead or otherwise.
(2) Where any electrically charged overhead cable or apparatus is liable to be a source of danger to persons employed during the course of any construction work to which these Regulations apply, whether from a lifting machine, or the use or handling of any plant, equipment or building materials, all practicable precautions shall be taken, either by the provision of adequate and suitably placed barriers or otherwise, to prevent approach to the danger area in the vicinity of the overhead cables or apparatus.
(3) All electrical apparatus and conductors used in construction work shall comply with the relevant requirements of the Factories (Electricity) Regulations.
101. Duties of contractors and employers of workmen
It shall be the duty of every contractor and every employer of workmen undertaking any construction work to which these Regulations apply—
(a) to comply with such regulations which affect him or any workmen employed by him:
Provided that the requirements of the said regulations shall be deemed not to affect any workman if and so long as his presence in any place is not in the course of performing any work on behalf of his employer and is not expressly or impliedly authorised or permitted by his employer;
(b) to comply with such regulations as relate to any work, act or operation performed or about to be performed by any such contractor or employer of workmen;
(c) to comply with such regulations as relate to the erection or alteration of scaffolds and to the erection, dismantling, installation, working or use of any machine, appliance or other plant or equipment by any such contractor or employer of workmen;
(d) to keep readily available a copy of these Regulations for use on the site of any construction work.
102. Duties of persons employed
It shall be the duty of every person employed to comply with the requirements of such of these Regulations as relate to the performance of or the refraining from an act by him and to co- operate in carrying out these Regulations and, if he discovers any defect in the machinery, plant or equipment, to report such defect without unreasonable delay to his employer or foreman, or to a person appointed by the employer as safety supervisor.
(1) Whenever an accident occurs in any construction work which either—
(a) causes loss of life to a person employed in that construction work; or
(b) disables any such person for more than three days from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed;
the employer shall forthwith send written notice of the accident to an inspector.
(2) In addition, in case of death, the employer shall forthwith send notice of the accident in writing, and also where practicable by telegraph or telephone, to an inspector.
(3) Whenever death ensues as a consequence of an accident which has already been notified, the employer shall immediately send notice of such death to an inspector.
104. Mining operations and premises
These Regulations shall not apply to construction work undertaken within the boundary of a mine, or to premises used for refining metals or ores which are under the control of a mining company or authority.
Any person guilty of an offence to which section 91 of the Act applies, or in respect of these Regulations or any lawful requirement made thereunder, shall be liable to the penalties prescribed by section 92 of the Act.
[Regulation 17]
INSPECTION OF SCAFFOLDS
1. Location and description of scaffold inspected.
2. Date of inspection.
3. Result of inspection. Enter details of any defects. If no defects enter “In good order”.
4. Signature of person who made the inspection.
5. Date of entry in record book.
[Regulation 83(C)]
AMBULANCE ROOM EQUIPMENT
The ambulance room shall contain at least:
1. A glazed sink with hot and cold water always available.
2. A table with a smooth impermeable top.
3. Means for sterilising instruments.
4. A supply of suitable dressings, bandages and splints.
5. A couch.
6. A stretcher.
7. Blankets and hot water bottles.
8. A foot bath.
9. A suitable cupboard for instruments, etc.
10. Any special equipment which the Director of Medical Services may, in any particular case, consider necessary.
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CONSTRUCTION (SAFETY AND HEALTH) REGULATIONS - REGISTER OF HOIST, LIFTING MACHINES AND LIFTING TACKLE
[Regulation 58]
[Notice by the Labour Commissioner]
SI 119 of 1968.
It is hereby specified that the particulars to be entered, for the purposes of the Construction (Safety and Health) Regulations, in a register to be kept by employers or contractors undertaking construction work shall be as follows:
1. Name and office address of employer or contractor.
2. Distinguishing number or mark and description sufficient to identify each hoist, lifting machine or lifting tackle.
3. Date and number of the report of each thorough examination of hoists subject to regulation 43 and lifting tackle subject to regulation 53.
4. Date and number of the report of each test or thorough examination of lifting machines subject to regulations 41 and 43.
5. Date and number of the report of each examination and test of the anchorage or ballasting of a crane subject to regulation 44.
6. Particulars of any defect found at any examination required by regulation 42 or specified in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 above and affecting the safe working load and the steps taken to remedy such defect.
7. Date and number of the certificate relating to any test and thorough examination made under regulation 41 of each crane, crab, winch, hoist, pulley block, gin wheel or sheer legs before being taken into use for the first time and the name, signature and address of the person who issued the certificate.
FACTORIES (ELECTRICITY) REGULATIONS
[Sections 74 and 82]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
8. Switches and circuit-breakers
9. Fuses and automatic circuit-breakers
11. Cutting off pressure and protection from excess current
12. Placing of single-pole switches
13. Earthing of bare neutral conductors
14. Means of cutting off pressure from motors, etc.
15. Switches for control of electric motors
17. General arrangement of switchboards
19. Placing of switchboard apparatus, etc.
20. Switchboard working platforms and passage-ways
21. Switchboards for high or extra high pressure
22. Protection of high and extra high pressure apparatus
23. Precautions against accidental charging above normal working pressure
24. Precautions against accidental charging of metal other than conductors
25. Precautions against accidental charging of apparatus
26. Provision of insulating stands or screens
27. Provision and use of portable insulating devices
28. Safe working space and means of access
30. Protection against exposure
31. Only authorised persons, etc., to undertake certain work
32. Instructions as to treatment for electric shock
33. Construction, etc., of substations
35. Means of access to substations
[Regulations by the Minister]
Act 13 of 1994,
SI 254 of 1967,
SI 91 of 1974.
These Regulations may be cited as the Factories (Electricity) Regulations.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“apparatus” means electrical apparatus in any undertaking, and includes all apparatus, machines and fittings in which conductors are used or of which they form a part;
“authorised person”, in respect of any duties incidental to the generation, transformation, distribution or use of electrical energy in any undertaking, means—
(a) the person responsible for such undertaking if a competent person; and
(b) any electrical contractor under contract with the person responsible for such undertaking; and
(c) any competent person authorised by the person responsible for the undertaking concerned or by such undertaking as aforesaid;
“bare” means not covered with insulating material;
“circuit” means an electrical circuit forming a system or branch of a system;
“conductor” means an electrical conductor arranged to be electrically connected to a system;
“covered with insulating material” means adequately covered with insulating material of such quality and thickness that there is no danger when the matter so covered is live;
“danger” means danger to health or danger to life or limb from shock, burn or other injury to persons employed in an undertaking, or from fire, attendant upon the generation, transformation, distribution or use of electrical energy;
“dead” means at or about zero potential and disconnected from any live system or part thereof;
“earthed” means connected to the general mass of earth in such manner as will ensure at all times an immediate discharge of electrical energy without danger;
“extra high pressure” means a pressure in a system normally exceeding 6,600 volts at the point where the electrical energy is used or supplied;
“high pressure” means a pressure in a system normally above 650 volts but not exceeding 6,600 volts at the point where the electrical energy is used or supplied;
“insulating”, in respect of any clothing, material or thing, means such clothing, material or thing of such size, quality and construction that, having regard to all the circumstances of its use by any person, in connection with electrical energy, such person is by reason of such use, adequately protected from danger;
“live” means electrically charged;
“low pressure” means a pressure in a system normally not exceeding 250 volts at the point where the electrical energy is used;
“medium pressure” means a pressure in a system normally above 250 volts but not exceeding 650 volts at the point where the electrical energy is used;
“person responsible” means—
(a) in respect of a factory, the occupier thereof;
(b) in respect of any building operations or work of engineering construction, any person undertaking such operations or work whether as employer, contractor or sub-contractor;
“pressure” means the difference of electrical potential between any two conductors, or between a conductor and earth, as read by a hot wire or electrostatic voltmeter;
“public supply” means the supply of electrical energy by a person authorised thereto by a licence granted under the provisions of any law;
“substation” means any premises, or part thereof, in which electrical energy is transformed or converted to or from pressure above medium pressure if such premises, or part thereof, are large enough for a person to enter after the apparatus is in position: Provided that where such transformation is made solely for the purpose of working instruments, relays or similar auxiliary apparatus, such premises shall not be deemed to be a substation;
“switchboard” means a collection of switches, fuses, conductors and other apparatus in connection therewith, used for the purpose of controlling the current or pressure in any system or part of a system;
“switchboard passage-way” means any passage-way or compartment large enough for a person to enter and used in connection with a switchboard when live;
“system” means an electrical system in an undertaking in which all the conductors and apparatus are electrically connected to a common source of electromotive force;
“undertaking” means any factory, building operation or work of engineering construction.
These Regulations shall apply to the generation, transformation, distribution and use of electrical energy in any undertaking.
(1) Nothing in regulations 6 to 8, 11(a), 12 to 14, 18 to 20, 24 to 29, 31, 33 and 34 shall apply—
(a) to any system in which the pressure does not exceed 250 volts direct current or 125 volts alternating current; or
(b) in any generating station, to any system in which the pressure between it and earth does not exceed low pressure:
Provided that where, on account of any special circumstances, the Commissioner is of opinion that the exemption granted by this sub-regulation should not apply to any particular factory, he may give written notice to the occupier of such factory that the provisions of this sub-regulation shall not apply thereto, and the said exemption shall cease to apply to such factory from such date, not being less than twenty-eight days from the date of such notice, as the Commissioner may specify.
(2) Nothing in these Regulations shall apply to any service lines or apparatus other than apparatus contained in any substation of a public supply between the output terminals of the supply station and the supply side of a consumer’s terminals, or to any chamber containing such service lines or apparatus:
Provided that no live metal shall be exposed in such service lines or apparatus so that it may be touched.
(3) If the person responsible for any undertaking can show, to the satisfaction of the Commissioner, that with regard to any requirement of these Regulations the special conditions of the undertaking are such as adequately prevent danger, that requirement shall be deemed to be satisfied in respect of such undertaking for so long as such conditions remain substantially unaltered.
(4) The Commissioner may, by statutory order, direct that any class of special conditions defined in such order shall be deemed, for the purposes of all or any of the requirements of these Regulations, adequately to prevent danger, and the Commissioner may at any time amend or revoke any such order.
(5) Nothing in these Regulations shall apply to any process or apparatus used exclusively for electro-chemical or electro-thermal or testing or research purposes:
Provided that any such process is so worked and any such apparatus is so constructed and protected and special precautions are taken as may be necessary to prevent danger.
(6) The Commissioner may, if satisfied that safety is otherwise secured in a practical manner, by statutory order, exempt from the operation of all or any of these Regulations, any premises to which any special regulations as to the generation, transformation, distribution or use of electrical energy, made under the provisions of any law, apply, and the Commissioner may at any time amend or revoke any such order.
All apparatus and conductors shall be sufficient in size and power for the work which they are called upon to do, and be so constructed, installed, protected, worked and maintained as to prevent danger so far as is reasonably practicable.
All conductors shall either be covered with insulating material and further efficiently protected where necessary to prevent danger, or they shall be so placed and safeguarded as to prevent danger so far as is reasonably practicable.
Every switch, switch fuse, circuit-breaker, and insulating link shall be—
(a) so constructed, placed or protected as to prevent danger;
(b) so constructed and adjusted as accurately to make and maintain good contact;
(c) provided with an efficient handle or other means of working insulated from the system and so arranged that no person can inadvertently touch live metal;
(d) so constructed or arranged that it cannot accidentally fall or move into contact when left out of contact.
8. Switches and circuit-breakers
(1) Every switch intended to be used for breaking a circuit and every circuit-breaker, and each pole of double-pole or multi-pole switches or circuit-breakers, shall be so constructed that it cannot with proper care be left in partial contact.
(2) Every switch intended to be used for breaking a circuit and every circuit-breaker shall be so constructed that an arc cannot be accidentally maintained.
9. Fuses and automatic circuit-breakers
(1) Every fuse, and every automatic circuit-breaker used in lieu of such fuse, shall be so constructed and arranged as effectively to interrupt the current before it so exceeds the working rate as to involve danger.
(2) Every fuse, and every automatic circuit-breaker used in lieu of such fuse, shall be of such construction or be so guarded or placed as to prevent danger from over-heating or from arcing or the scattering of hot metal or other substance when it comes into operation.
(3) Every fuse shall be either of such construction or so protected by a switch that the fusible metal may be readily renewed without danger.
Every electrical joint and connection shall be of proper construction as regards conductivity, insulation, mechanical strength and protection.
11. Cutting off pressure and protection from excess current
Such efficient means as may be necessary to prevent danger shall be provided and suitably located—
(a) for cutting off all pressure from every part of a system; and
(b) for protecting every part of a system from excess current.
12. Placing of single-pole switches
Where one of the conductors of a system is connected to earth, no single-pole switch, other than a link for testing purposes or a switch for use in controlling a generator, shall be placed in such conductor or any branch thereof:
Provided that a switch or automatic or other cutout may be placed in the connection between the conductor and earth at the generating station for use in testing or in emergency only.
13. Earthing of bare neutral conductors
Where one of the main conductors of a system is bare and uninsulated, no switch, fuse or circuit-breaker shall be placed in that conductor or in any conductor connected thereto, and any such conductor shall be earthed:
Provided that switches, fuses or circuit-breakers may be used to break the connection with the generators or transformers supplying the power if the connection of any bare conductor with earth is not thereby broken.
14. Means of cutting off pressure from motors, etc.
Every motor, converter and transformer shall be protected by efficient means, suitably placed and so connected that all pressure may thereby be cut off from the motor, converter or transformer, as the case may be, and from all apparatus connected therewith:
Provided that where one point of the system is connected to earth, it shall not be necessary to disconnect on that side of such system which is connected to earth.
15. Switches for control of electric motors
(1) Every electric motor shall be controlled by an efficient switch or switches for starting and stopping, so placed as to be easily worked by the person in charge of such motor.
(2) In every place in which machines are being driven by an electric motor, there shall be means at hand for either switching off the motor or stopping the machines if necessary to prevent danger.
(1) Every flexible wire for any portable apparatus shall be connected to the system concerned either by efficient permanent joints or connections or by a properly constructed connector.
(2) In all cases where a person handling any portable apparatus or pendant lamps with switches would be liable to get a shock, through a conducting floor or conducting work or otherwise, if the metal-work of such apparatus became live, such metal-work shall be efficiently earthed and any flexible metallic covering of the conductors shall be itself efficiently earthed and shall not be the only earth connection for the metal of the apparatus.
(3) No lampholder shall be in metallic connection with the guard or other exposed metal-work of a portable lamp.
(4) All portable apparatus and all flexible wire connected thereto shall be controlled by efficient means suitably located, and capable of cutting off the pressure thereto, and the metal-work of such apparatus shall be efficiently earthed independently of any flexible metallic cover of the conductors, and any such flexible covering shall itself be independently earthed.
(5) The provisions of this regulation shall not apply in any case where the apparatus, lamp or wire concerned is connected to a system in which the pressure is direct current not exceeding 150 volts.
17. General arrangement of switchboards
The general arrangement of switchboards shall, so far as is reasonably practicable, be such that—
(a) all parts which may have to be adjusted or handled are readily accessible;
(b) the course of every conductor may, where necessary, be readily traced;
(c) conductors not arranged for connection to the same system are kept well apart and can, where necessary, be readily distinguished;
(d) all bare conductors are so placed or protected as to prevent danger from accidental short circuit.
(1) Every switchboard having bare conductors normally so exposed that they may be touched by any person shall, if not located in an area or areas set apart for the purposes thereof, be suitably fenced or enclosed.
(2) No person, other than an authorised person or a person acting under his immediate supervision, shall have access to any switchboard mentioned in sub-regulation (1).
19. Placing of switchboard apparatus, etc
All apparatus appertaining to a switchboard and requiring handling shall, so far as is practicable, be so placed or arranged as to be operated from the working platform of the switchboard, and all measuring instruments and indicators connected therewith shall, so far as is practicable, be so placed as to be observed from such platform, and if any such apparatus is worked or observed from any place other than such platform, adequate precautions shall be taken to prevent danger.
20. Switchboard working platforms and passage-ways
(1) Adequate means of access, free from danger, shall be provided for every switchboard passage-way.
(2) Where at the working platform of any switchboard or in any switchboard passage-way there are bare conductors exposed or arranged to be exposed when live so that they may be touched by any person on such platform or in such passage-way, there shall be left a clear and unobstructed passage of ample width and height, with a firm and even floor, on such platform or in such passage-way.
(3) The following provisions shall apply to all such platforms and passage-ways as are mentioned in sub-regulation (2), unless the bare conductors on such platform or in such passage-way, whether overhead or at the sides thereof, are otherwise adequately protected against danger by divisions or screens or other suitable means:
(a) any such platform or passage-way constructed for a low pressure or medium pressure switchboard shall have a clear height of not less than 2.250 metres, and a clear width, measured from any bare conductor, of not less than 1 metre;
(b) any such platform or passage-way constructed for a high pressure or extra high pressure switchboard, other than operating desks or panels working solely at low pressure, shall have a clear height of not less than 2.500 metres, and a clear width, measured from any bare conductor, of not less than 1.250 metres;
(c) bare conductors shall not be exposed on both sides of any such switchboard passage- way unless either—
(i) the clear width of such passage-way measured between such bare conductors is not less than 1.250 metres in the case of low or medium pressure and not less than 2.438 metres in the case of high and extra high pressure; or
(ii) the conductors on one side of such passage-way are so guarded that they cannot accidentally be touched.
[Am by SI 91 of 1974.]
21. Switchboards for high or extra high pressure
In every switchboard for high pressure or extra high pressure—
(a) every high pressure or extra high pressure conductor within reach from the working platform or in any passage-way shall be so placed or protected as adequately to prevent danger;
(b) the metal cases of all instruments working at high or extra high pressure shall either be earthed or completely enclosed with insulating covers;
(c) all metal handles of high and extra high pressure switches and, where necessary to prevent danger, all metal gear for working such switches, shall be earthed;
(d) when any work is done on any such switchboard the switchboard shall be made dead unless—
(i) the section of the switchboard on which the work is to be done (hereinafter referred to as the relevant section) is made dead and every other section which is live is either—
A. so separated from the relevant section by permanent or removable divisions or screens as not to be a source of danger to persons working on the relevant section; or
B. in such a position or of such construction as to be as safe as if so separated as aforesaid; or
(ii) the switchboard itself is so arranged as to secure that work is done without danger without taking any of the precautions aforesaid.
22. Protection of high and extra high pressure apparatus
All parts of generators, motors, transformers or other similar apparatus which are at high or extra high pressure and which are within reach from any position where a person employed in the undertaking may require to be, shall, so far as is reasonably practicable, be so protected as to prevent danger.
23. Precautions against accidental charging above normal working pressure
Where a high or extra high pressure supply is transformed for use at a lower pressure, or energy is transformed up to above low pressure, suitable provision shall be made to guard against danger by reason of the lower pressure system becoming accidentally charged above its normal pressure by leakage or contact from the higher pressure system.
24. Precautions against accidental charging of metal other than conductors
Where necessary to prevent danger, adequate precautions shall be taken either by earthing or by other suitable means to prevent any metal other than a conductor from becoming electrically charged.
25. Precautions against accidental charging of apparatus
Adequate precautions shall be taken to prevent any conductor or apparatus from being accidentally or inadvertently electrically charged when persons are working thereon.
26. Provision of insulating stands or screens
Where necessary adequately to prevent danger, insulating stands or screens shall be provided and kept permanently in position, and such stands or screens shall be maintained in sound condition.
27. Provision and use of portable insulating devices
Portable insulating stands or screens or insulating boots or gloves, or other suitable means, shall be provided and used when necessary adequately to prevent danger, and any such articles shall be periodically examined by an authorised person.
28. Safe working space and means of access
Adequate working space and means of access, free from danger, shall be provided for all apparatus that has to be worked or attended to by any person.
All those parts of any undertaking in which apparatus is placed shall be adequately lighted to prevent danger.
30. Protection against exposure
All conductors and apparatus exposed to the weather, wet, corrosion, inflammable surroundings or explosive atmosphere, or used in connection with any process or for any special purpose other than for lighting or power, shall be so constructed or protected, and such special precautions shall be taken, as may be necessary adequately to prevent danger in view of such exposure or use.
31. Only authorised persons, etc., to undertake certain work
(1) No person other than an authorised person, or a competent person acting under his immediate supervision, shall operate any apparatus where technical knowledge or experience is required for such operation in order adequately to avoid danger, and no person shall work alone in connection with any system or apparatus in any case where the Commissioner has directed that he shall not.
(2) No person other than an authorised person, or a competent person over the apparent age of twenty-one years acting under his immediate supervision, shall undertake any repair, alteration, extension or cleaning of any apparatus and no one shall do such work unaccompanied.
(3) Where a contractor is employed in any undertaking, and the danger to be avoided is under his control, such contractor shall appoint the authorised person for the purposes of this regulation, but if the danger to be avoided is under the control of the person responsible for the undertaking, such person shall appoint such authorised person.
32. Instructions as to treatment for electric shock
Printed instructions as to the proper first-aid treatment of persons suffering from electric shock shall be affixed in a prominent place in all undertakings where electrical energy is generated, transformed or used above a pressure of 125 volts alternating current or 250 volts direct current.
33. Construction, etc., of substations
(1) Every substation shall be substantially constructed, and shall be so arranged that no person can obtain access thereto otherwise than by a proper entrance or can interfere with the apparatus or conductors therein from outside.
(2) Every substation shall be provided with efficient means of ventilation, be kept dry, and made vermin proof as far as practicable.
(3) At the entrance to every substation shall be posted a suitable warning notice of danger.
Every substation shall be under the control of an authorised person, and none but an authorised person, or a person acting under his immediate supervision, shall enter any part of any substation where there may be danger.
35. Means of access to substations
Every underground substation not otherwise easily and safely accessible shall be provided with adequate means of access by a door or trap door, with a staircase or ladder securely fixed and so placed that no live part of any switchboard or any bare conductor shall be within reach of a person thereon:
Provided that the means of access to any such substation shall be by a doorway and staircase—
(i) if any person is regularly employed therein otherwise than for inspection and cleaning; or
(ii) if the substation is not of ample dimensions and there is therein either moving machinery, other than ventilating fans, or high or extra high pressure.
Any person guilty of an offence under the provisions of section 91 of the Act in respect of these Regulations or any lawful requirement thereunder shall be liable to the penalties prescribed by section 92 of the Act.
[Sections 74 and 82]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
3. Contents of first-aid boxes or cases
4. Requirements as to dressings
[Regulations by the Minister]
SI 251 of 1967,
SI 93 of 1974.
These Regulations may be cited as the First-aid Boxes Regulations, and shall apply to factories, building operations and works of engineering construction.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“adhesive wound dressing” means a dressing which consists of a pad fixed to a piece of plaster, waterproof or otherwise, as centrally as possible so as to leave an adequate margin of adhesive surface all round;
“approved”, in relation to—
(a) an adhesive wound dressing, means an adhesive wound dressing packed and kept in accordance with, and of a type prescribed by, these Regulations;
(b) eye ointment, means eye ointment packed and kept in accordance with, and of a type prescribed by, these Regulations;
“eye ointment” means the eye ointment referred to as Sulphacetamide Eye Ointment in the British Pharmacopoeia, 1958, containing not less than six per centum and not more than ten per centum sulphacetamide sodium, or sulphacetamide eye ointment of similar strength in a suitable water miscible base;
“eye-pad” means a pack containing a sterilised pad with a long bandage attached;
“first-aid box, case or cupboard” means a first-aid box, case or cupboard required to be kept, maintained or made available in terms of section 67 of the Act or regulation 83 of the Construction (Safety and Health) Regulations.
3. Contents of first-aid boxes or cases
(1) Every first-aid box, case or cupboard in any factory or at the site of any building operations or works of engineering construction shall contain the items specified in relation to such factory, building operations or work of engineering construction site in the Schedule.
(2) The Commissioner may, in any particular case, vary or add to the list of items set out in any Part of the Schedule by giving notice thereof in writing to a factory occupier or manager or an employer of persons engaged in building operations or works of engineering construction, as the case may be, and the contents of any first-aid box, case or cupboard in any such factory or at the site of any such building operations or works of engineering construction shall thereupon be made to conform to such variation or addition:
Provided that such variation or addition shall in no way diminish the effectiveness of such items.
4. Requirements as to dressings
All materials for dressings contained in any first-aid box, case or cupboard shall be those designated in, and of a grade or quality not lower than the standards specified by, the British Pharmaceutical Codex or any supplements thereto.
(1) Every adhesive wound dressing shall be packed in an individual sealed pack marked clearly to indicate the contents and shall be kept in a tin or other suitable dust-proof container.
(2) The pad and margin of adhesive surface of every adhesive wound dressing shall be protected by muslin or other suitable material for removal before use.
(3) The pad of every adhesive wound dressing shall be—
(a) a piece of unmedicated absorbent lint or other suitable material; or
(b) a piece of absorbent lint or other suitable material containing any one of the following substances of not more than the strength specified:
Boric Acid
5 per centum
Aminacrine Hydrochloride
0.1 per centum
Chlorhexidine Hydrochloride
0.1 per centum
Euflavine
0.15 per centum
Domiphen Bromide
0.15 per centum
Bismuth Subgallate
2.5 per centum.
(1) All eye ointment shall be packed in sterilised collapsible opaque tubes in accordance with sub-regulations (2) and (3).
(2) Every tube containing eye ointment shall be fitted with a nozzle and cap and shall contain four grams of the ointment.
(3) There shall be clearly marked on each such tube—
(a) the words “Sulphacetamide Eye Ointment”; and
(b) the content of sulphacetamide sodium.
(4) The sulphacetamide sodium contained in the eye ointment shall conform to the standard prescribed in the British Pharmacopoeia, 1958.
[Am by SI 93 of 1974.]
Any person guilty of an offence under the provisions of section 91 of the Act in respect of these Regulations or any lawful requirement thereunder shall be liable to the penalties prescribed by section 92 of the Act.
[Regulation 3]
CONTENTS OF FIRST-AID BOXES, CASES OR CUPBOARDS
PART I
FACTORIES IN WHICH THE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED DOES NOT EXCEED TEN OR BUILDING OPERATIONS OR WORK OF ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION SITES WHERE THE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED DOES NOT EXCEED TWENTY-FIVE
1. A sufficient number (not less than six) of small unmedicated sterilised dressings for injured fingers.
2. A sufficient number (not less than three) of medium-sized unmedicated sterilised dressings for injured hands or feet.
3. A sufficient number (not less than three) of large unmedicated sterilised dressings for other injured parts.
4. A sufficient number (not less than twelve) of adhesive wound dressings of an approved type and of assorted sizes.
5. A sufficient number (not less than two) of suitable triangular bandages.
6. A sufficient supply of adhesive plaster (at least one spool 25 millimetres ´ 1 metre and one spool 12.500 ´ 5 metres.
7. A sufficient supply of absorbent, preferably sterilised, cotton wool in 28 grams packets (at least two packets).
8. A rubber bandage, pressure bandage or tourniquet.
9. Safety pins.
10. A one per centum solution of Cetrimide.
11. A sufficient supply of approved Sulphacetamide Eye Ointment in a container of approved type and size.
12. Two eye pads with bandages.
13. A bottle of sal volatile, already mixed in the proportion of 3.500 millilitres to each 56 millilitres water; marked “Stimulant” and having dose and mode of administration indicated on the label.
14. A copy of the leaflet giving advice on first-aid treatment issued by the Department of Labour.
[Am by SI 93 of 1974.]
PART II
FACTORIES IN WHICH THE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED EXCEEDS TEN BUT DOES NOT EXCEED FIFTY
1. A sufficient number (not less than twelve) of small unmedicated sterilised dressings for injured fingers.
2. A sufficient number (not less than six) of medium-sized unmedicated sterilised dressings for injured hands or feet.
3. A sufficient number (not less than six) of large unmedicated sterilised dressings for other injured parts.
4. A sufficient number (not less than twenty-four) of adhesive wound dressings of an approved type and of assorted sizes.
5. A sufficient number (not less than four) of suitable triangular bandages.
6. A sufficient supply of adhesive plaster (at least one spool 25 millimetres , 1 metre and one spool 12.500 millimetres , 5 metres.
7. A sufficient supply of absorbent, preferably sterilised, cotton wool in 28 gram packets (at least three packets).
8. A rubber bandage, pressure bandage or tourniquet.
9. Safety pins.
10. A one per centum solution of Cetrimide.
11. A sufficient supply of approved Sulphacetamide Eye Ointment in a container of approved type and size.
12. Four eye pads with bandages.
13. A bottle of sal volatile, already mixed in the proportion of 3.500 millilitres to each 56 millilitres water; marked “Stimulant” and having dose and mode of administration indicated on the label.
14. A copy of the leaflet giving advice on first-aid treatment issued by the Department of Labour.
[Am by SI 93 of 1974.]
PART III
FACTORIES IN WHICH THE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED EXCEEDS FIFTY OR BUILDING OPERATIONS OR WORK OF ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION SITES WHERE THE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED EXCEEDS TWENTY-FIVE
1. A sufficient number (not less than twenty-four) of small unmedicated sterilised dressings for injured fingers.
2. A sufficient number (not less than twelve) of medium-sized unmedicated sterilised dressings for injured hands or feet.
3. A sufficient number (not less than twelve) of large unmedicated sterilised dressings for other injured parts.
4. A sufficient number (not less than thirty-six) of adhesive wound dressings of an approved type and of assorted sizes.
5. A sufficient number (not less than eight) of suitable triangular bandages.
6. A sufficient supply of adhesive plaster (at least two spools 25 millimetres ´ 1 metre and two spools 12.500 millimetres ´ 5 metres).
7. A sufficient supply of absorbent, preferably sterilised, cotton wool in 28 grams packets (at least six packets).
8. A supply of suitable splints and cotton wool or other material for padding.
9. A rubber bandage, pressure bandage or tourniquet.
10. Safety pins.
11. A one per centum solution of Cetrimide.
12. A sufficient supply of approved Sulphacetamide Eye Ointment in a container of approved type and size.
13. Eight eye pads with bandages.
14. A bottle of sal volatile, already mixed in the proportion of 3.500 millilitres to each 56 millilitres water; marked “Stimulant” and having dose and mode of administration indicated on the label.
15. A copy of the leaflet giving advice on first-aid treatment issued by the Department of Labour.
[Am by SI 93 of 1974.]
WOODWORKING MACHINERY REGULATIONS
[Sections 74 and 82]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
11. Vertical spindle moulding machines
13. Maintenance of guards, etc.
[Regulations by the Minister]
SI 253 of 1967,
SI 94 of 1974.
These Regulations may be cited as the Woodworking Machinery Regulations.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“circular saw” means a circular saw working in a bench, including a rack bench, for the purpose of ripping, deep cutting or cross cutting wood, but does not include a swing or other saw which is moved towards the wood;
“plain band saw” means a band saw, other than a log saw or band re-sawing machine, the cutting portion of which runs in a vertical direction;
“planing machine” includes a machine for overhand planing or for thicknessing or for both operations;
“undertaking” means any factory, building operations or work of engineering construction;
“woodworking machine” means a circular saw, plain band saw, planning machine, vertical spindle moulding machine or chain mortising machine operating on wood.
These Regulations shall apply to woodworking machines in any undertaking.
Every woodworking machine shall be provided with an efficient stopping and starting appliance, the controls of which shall be situated in such a position as to be readily and conveniently operated by the person in charge of the machine.
Sufficient clear and unobstructed space shall be maintained at every woodworking machine while such machine is in motion to enable work to be carried on without unnecessary risk.
The floor surrounding every woodworking machine shall be maintained in good and level condition and, as far as practicable, free from loose material, and shall not be allowed to become slippery.
Sufficient and suitable lighting, whether natural or artificial, shall be secured and maintained at every woodworking machine, and any means of artificial lighting shall be so placed or shaded as to prevent the direct rays of such lighting from striking the eyes of any person operating such machine.
When any circular saw is in motion—
(a) that part of the saw below the bench table shall be protected by two plates of metal, one on each side of and parallel to the saw and not more than 150 millimetres apart, which shall extend to a distance of not less than 50 millimetres beyond the teeth of the saw in every direction; and
(b) behind, and in a direct line with the saw, there shall be a riving knife which shall have a smooth surface, shall be strong, rigid and easily adjustable, and which shall also conform to the following conditions:
(i) the edge of the knife nearer the saw shall form an arc of a circle having a radius not exceeding the radius of the largest saw used on the bench;
(ii) the knife shall be maintained as close as practicable to the saw, having regard to the nature of the work being done at the time, and, at the level of the bench table, the distance between the front edge of the knife and the teeth of the saw shall not exceed 12 millimetres;
(iii) for a saw of a diameter of less than twenty-four inches, the knife shall extend upwards from the bench table to within 25 millimetres of the top of the saw, and for a saw of a diameter of 610 millimetres or over, shall extend upwards from the bench table to a height of at least 220 millimetres; and
(c) the top of the saw shall be covered by a strong and easily adjustable guard, with a flange at the side of the saw farthest from the fence, which shall extend from the top of the riving knife to a point as low as practicable at the cutting edge of the saw, and which shall be kept so adjusted that the said flange shall extend below the roots of the teeth of the saw; and
(d) where such saw is fed by hand, a suitable push-stick shall be kept available for use at the bench table to enable the work to be carried on without unnecessary risk.
[Am by SI 94 of 1974.]
When any plain band saw is in motion—
(a) the front of the top pulley shall be covered with sheet metal or other suitable material; and
(b) both sides of the bottom pulley shall be completely encased by sheet metal or other suitable material;
(c) all portions of the blade, other than that between the bench table and the top guide, shall be enclosed or otherwise securely guarded.
(1) No planing machine which is not mechanically fed shall be used for overhand planing unless it is fitted with a cylindrical cutter block.
(2) Every planing machine used for overhand planing shall be provided with a bridge guard capable of covering the full length and breadth of the cutting slot in the bench and so constructed as to be easily adjustable both in a horizontal and vertical direction.
(3) The feed roller of every planing machine used for thicknessing shall be provided with an efficient guard.
11. Vertical spindle moulding machines
(1) The cutter of every vertical spindle moulding machine shall, when practicable, be fitted with a guard which is, having regard to the nature of the work which is being performed, the most efficient for preventing injury to any person.
(2) Where the work being performed at a vertical spindle moulding machine cannot be efficiently performed when a guard is fitted to the cutter, the wood being moulded in such machine shall, if practicable, be held in a jig or holder of such construction as to reduce as far as possible the risk of injury to any person.
(3) A suitable spike or push-stick shall be kept available for use at the bench of every vertical spindle moulding machine.
The chain of every chain mortising machine shall be provided with a guard which shall, as far as is practicable, enclose the cutters of such machine.
13. Maintenance of guards, etc.
The guards and appliances required by these Regulations shall be maintained in an efficient state, and shall, unless the nature of the work being done at any particular time renders the use of such guards and appliances impracticable, be kept in position whilst the machinery concerned is in motion and so adjusted as to enable the work to be carried on without unnecessary risk.
The provisions of these Regulations relating to circular saws, plain band saws and planing machines shall not apply in any case where it can be shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that other safeguards are provided and maintained which render the machines equally as safe as they would be if guarded in the manner prescribed by these Regulations.
No person shall be employed at a woodworking machine unless he has been sufficiently trained to work that type or class of machine, or unless he works under the adequate supervision of a person who has been so trained, and every person employed at a woodworking machine shall be fully instructed as to the dangers which may arise in connection with such machine and the precautions to be observed in that regard.
Any person employed on a woodworking machine shall—
(a) use and maintain in proper adjustment the guards provided in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations; or
(b) use, in the appropriate case, any appliance so provided; except when, owing to the nature of the work being done, the use of the guards or appliances is rendered impracticable.
Any person guilty of an offence under the provisions of section 91 of the Act in respect of these Regulations or any lawful requirement thereunder shall be liable to the penalties prescribed by section 92 of the Act.
FACTORIES ACT (APPLICATION EXTENSION) ORDER
[Section 84]
Arrangement of Paragraphs
Paragraph
[Order by the Minister]
SI 326 of 1967,
SI 89 of 1974.
This Order may be cited as the Factories Act (Application Extension) Order.
The Parts of the Act and the Regulations in the Schedule shall apply to all farm premises in which a steam boiler is used in connection with agricultural operations, including dairy farming.
[Paragraph 2]
EXTENSION TO FARM PREMISES
The Factories Act, Parts VIII and XIV.
The Factories (Prescribed Particulars and Forms) Regulations.
The Plant Inspection and Examination Fees Regulations.
CERTIFICATE OF EXCEPTION BY THE LABOUR COMMISSIONER
I HEREBY CERTIFY that in accordance with section 61 of the Factories Act, steam boilers which are used solely for the purposes of “steaming” tobacco at farm premises shall be excepted from the following provisions of the Act:
(a) that part of section 54 (5) which requires the construction of steam boilers to be consistent with a relevant standard specification; and
(b) from the provisions of section 55 (3);
subject to the following conditions:
(i) An excepted steam boiler shall comply with all the provisions of Part VIII of the Act apart from the specified exceptions.
(ii) An excepted steam boiler and all its fittings and attachments shall be thoroughly examined by an inspector or other person authorised by the Commissioner at intervals not exceeding three years and also as soon as practicable after any extensive repairs.
(iii) An excepted steam boiler shall not be worked at a pressure exceeding 0.600 bars per 25.4 square millimetres, until it has been thoroughly examined by an inspector, and the prescribed report obtained, which includes particulars of the safe working pressure.
(iv) Oil drums or similar vessels shall not be used for generating steam under pressure greater than atmospheric pressure.
(v) This Certificate of Exception, or any condition, may be revoked by the Commissioner at any time.
[Am by SI 89 of 1974.]
FACTORIES (CLEANLINESS OF WALLS AND CEILINGS) REGULATIONS
[Section 105]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
3. Manner of painting and repainting
4. Intervals for repainting or revarnishing walls and ceilings
[Regulations by the Minister]
SI 153 of 1967.
These Regulations may be cited as the Factories (Cleanliness of Walls and Ceilings) Regulations.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“walls and ceilings” means all inside walls and partitions, all ceilings and tops of rooms, and all walls, sides and tops of passages and staircases;
“washed” means washed with hot water and soap or other suitable detergent, or cleaned by such other method as may be approved by an inspector.
3. Manner of painting and repainting
For the purposes of sub-section (2)(d)(ii) of section 19 of the Act, the manner of painting and of repainting walls and ceilings shall be the application of a suitable paint in such manner as to produce over the whole of the treated surface a compact continuous film capable of being washed.
4. Intervals for repainting or revarnishing walls and ceilings
For the purposes of sub-section (2)(d)(ii) of section 19 of the Act, walls and ceilings—
(a) which are painted shall be repainted at intervals not exceeding seven years;
(b) which are varnished shall be revarnished at intervals not exceeding seven years:
Provided that the whole part of the surface of walls and ceilings shall be repainted or revarnished, as the case may be, as often as may be necessary to maintain over the whole surface a compact continuous film capable of being washed.
FACTORIES (FIRST-AID) (PRESCRIBED STANDARD OF TRAINING) REGULATIONS
[Section 105]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
[Regulations by the Minister]
SI 152 of 1967.
These Regulations may be cited as the Factories (First-aid) (Prescribed Standard of Training) Regulations.
Standard of training in first-aid—
For the purposes of sub-sections (4) and (6) of section 67 of the Act, a person shall be deemed not to be trained in first-aid treatment unless—
(a) he is a fully registered nurse, registered in accordance with the provisions of the Nurses and Midwives Act; or
(b) he is a fully registered medical assistant registered in accordance with the provisions of the Medical and Allied Professions Act; or
(c) he is a nurse trained to a standard laid down by the Department of Health and his name is duly entered upon a roll kept at that Department; or
(d) he is the holder of a certificate in first-aid issued within the immediately preceding period of three years by, or is otherwise recognised as being trained in first-aid treatment by, a first-aid training organisation specified in the Schedule.
In factories where the persons in charge of the first-aid boxes or cupboards are required under sub-section (4) of section 67 of the Act to be persons trained in first-aid treatment, the following particulars shall be entered in or attached to the general register in respect of every such person:
(a) his name;
(b) the nature and date of his qualification as a person trained in first-aid treatment; and
(c) the date on which evidence of his being so trained was inspected by the occupier.
[Regulation 2]
FIRST-AID TRAINING ORGANISATIONS
The Council of St. John in Zambia.
Zambia Red Cross Society.
FACTORIES (PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS AND FORMS) REGULATIONS
[Section 105]
[Currency mentioned in this regulation should be re-denominated as stipulated under S 4 of Re-denomination Act, 2012, read with S 29 of Bank of Zambia Act, 1996.]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
3. Certificate of appointment of inspector
5. Registration of existing factories
6. Registration of new factories
8. “Machinery attendants” certificate
9. Report of result of examination of hoist or lift
10. Register of chains, ropes and lifting tackle and lifting machines
11. Report of result of examination of steam boiler
13. Report of result of examination of steam receiver
14. Report of result of examination of air receiver
15. Notification of factory accident
16. Notification of dangerous occurrence
17. Notification of industrial disease
18. Abstract of Act to be kept posted in factory
[Regulations by the Minister]
SI 154 of 1967,
SI 92 of 1974.
These Regulations may be cited as the Factories (Prescribed Particulars and Forms) Regulations.
Unless the context otherwise requires, expressions used in these Regulations shall have the same respective meanings as in the Act.
3. Certificate of appointment of inspector
A certificate of appointment of an inspector furnished under sub-section (2) of section 6 of the Act shall be in the form and shall contain the particulars specified in Part I of the Schedule.
The register of factories maintained by the Commissioner in accordance with the requirements of section 11 of the Act shall contain the particulars specified in Part II of the Schedule.
5. Registration of existing factories
The written application for a certificate of registration required by sub-section (1) of section 12 of the Act to be made to the Commissioner by every person who on the commencement of the Act occupies a factory shall contain the particulars specified in Part II of the Schedule.
6. Registration of new factories
The written application for a certificate of registration required by sub-section (2) of section13 of the Act to be made to the Commissioner by any person who intends to occupy or use as a factory any premises which were not so occupied or used on the commencement of the Act shall contain the particulars specified in Part II of the Schedule.
The written application required by sub-section (2) of section 15 of the Act to be made to the Commissioner for approval of drawings relating to the erection or conversion or extension of a factory shall contain the particulars specified in Part III of the Schedule.
8. “Machinery attendants” certificate
The certificate of appointment required to be furnished by an occupier under sub-section (2) (a) (ii) of section 30 of the Act (which provides that no person shall lubricate, examine or adjust any unfenced dangerous part of machinery or lubricate transmission machinery or mount or ship any belt that is in motion unless, in addition to the other precautions or conditions specified in the aforesaid section, he is appointed by the occupier by prescribed certificate attached to the general register to carry out such examination, lubrication, adjustment or other operation and he has been furnished by the occupier with a signed copy of such certificate) shall be in the form set out in Part IV of the Schedule.
9. Report of result of examination of hoist or lift
A report of the result of every examination of a hoist or lift made under sub-section (2) of section 47 of the Act shall be in the form set out in Part V of the Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein specified.
10. Register of chains, ropes and lifting tackle and lifting machines
The register kept for the purposes of section 53 of the Act in respect of all chains, ropes or lifting tackle (except fibre rope slings) to which section 51 of the Act applies and in respect of all lifting machines to which section 52 of the Act applies shall contain the particulars specified in Part VI of the Schedule.
11. Report of result of examination of steam boiler
A report of the result of every examination of a steam boiler under sub-section (7) of section 55 of the Act shall be in the form set out in Part VII of the Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein specified.
The boiler book kept for the purposes of sub-section (11) of section 55 of the Act shall be in the form set out in Part VIII of the Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein specified.
13. Report of result of examination of steam receiver
A report of the result of every examination of a steam receiver under sub-section (7) of section 57 of the Act shall be in the form set out in Part IX of the Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein specified.
14. Report of result of examination of air receiver
A report of the result of every examination of an air receiver under sub-section (6) of section 58 of the Act shall be in the form set out in Part IX of the Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein specified.
15. Notification of factory accident
Written notice of an accident in a factory given under section 76 of the Act shall be in the form set out in Part X of the Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein specified.
16. Notification of dangerous occurrence
Written notice of a dangerous occurrence in a factory given under section 77 of the Act shall be in the form set out in Part X of the Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein specified.
17. Notification of industrial disease
Written notice of any case of industrial disease given under section 78 of the Act shall be in the form set out in Part XI of the Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein specified.
18. Abstract of Act to be kept posted in factory
The abstract of the Act required by section 85 of the Act to be kept posted in a prominent position in every factory shall be in the form set out in Part XII of the Schedule.
The general register required by section 86 to be kept in respect of every factory shall be in the form set out in Part XIII of the Schedule and shall contain the particulars therein specified.
PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS AND FORMS
PART I
[Regulation 3]
REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA, DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR
IDENTITY CERTIFICATE
| No. | ||
| This is to certify that ........................... | ||
| ............................................................. |
PHOTOGRAPH OF HOLDER
who is a ..............................................
DATE............................................................
STAMPis an officer in the Department of Labour.
........................................................
Labour Commissioner
.................................................
Signature of HolderThis card must be handed in on leaving the Department.
PART II
[Regulations 4, 5 and 6]
PARTICULARS OF A FACTORY WHICH ARE—
TO BE ENTERED IN A REGISTER OF FACTORIES MAINTAINED BY THE LABOUR COMMISSIONER; OR
TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE LABOUR COMMISSIONER BY THE OCCUPIER OF AN EXISTING FACTORY IN AN APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION WITHIN THREE MONTHS OF THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE ACT; OR
TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE LABOUR COMMISSIONER BY THE INTENDING OCCUPIER OF A NEW FACTORY IN AN APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF THE PREMISES BEFORE THEY ARE OCCUPIED OR USED AS A FACTORY:
1. Name of the occupier, or intending occupier of the factory (including trading name - if any).
2. Postal address and situation (i.e. number in and name of street, road, etc., or plot number) of the factory.
3. Nature of the work carried on, or proposed to be carried on, in the factory.
4. Whether mechanical power is used or intended to be used and, if so, its nature.
5. Whether steam boilers are used or intended to be used and, if so, the following particulars in respect of each such boiler:
(a) type, description and distinctive number;
(b) country and year of manufacture;
(c) date of last thorough examination and name of person by whom the examination was made;
(d) the maximum permissible working pressure in bars.
6. (a) Total number of persons employed, or intended to be employed, in the factory.
(b) Where persons are employed, or intended to be employed, in shifts, the maximum number employed, or intended to be employed, at any one time.
[Am by SI 92 of 1974.]
PART III
[Regulation 7]
PARTICULARS TO BE SUPPLIED WITH, OR TO BE SHOWN ON, DRAWINGS
(i.e. PLANS AND SECTIONS) OF—
(1) NEW FACTORY BUILDINGS;
(2) CONVERSION OF EXISTING BUILDINGS FOR USE AS A FACTORY; AND
(3) EXTENSIONS OF EXISTING FACTORY BUILDINGS.
1. Materials to be used in the building;
2. Materials to be used in the roofing;
3. Provision for ventilation;
4. Provision for drainage;
5. Provision for natural and artificial lighting;
6. Provision of means of escape in case of fire; and
7. The particulars specified in Part II of this Schedule.
PART IV
[Regulation 8]
Labour Form F/17
Certificate No. .................
REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
FACTORIES ACT
[Section 30]
FACTORIES (PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS AND FORMS) REGULATIONS
[Regulation 8]
CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT AS A MACHINERY ATTENDANT
..................... ............................................is hereby appointed a “machinery attendant” and authorised to carry out examinations or other operations at unfenced machinery in accordance with the provisions of section 30 of the Factories Act.
Signature of Factory Occupier or Agent ...........................................................
Date....................................................................................................................
Name and postal address of Occupier ..............................................................................................
Address of Factory .............................................................................................................................
.............................................................................................................................................................
PART V
[Regulation 9]
Labour Form F/18
Report No. ................
REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
FACTORIES ACT
[Section 47 (2)]
THE FACTORIES (PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS AND FORMS) REGULATIONS
[Regulation 9]
FORM PRESCRIBED FOR THE REPORT OF THOROUGH EXAMINATION OF HOIST OR LIFT AT INTERVALS NOT EXCEEDING SIX MONTHS
(See Note on Legal Requirements and space for continuation of entries overleaf.)
1. Name and postal address of occupier
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
2. Address of factory or other premises where hoist or lift is situated
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
3.—
(a) Type of hoist or lift and identification number or description
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
(b) Date of construction or reconstruction (if available)
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
4. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION.
Are all parts of the hoist or lift of good mechanical construction, sound material and adequate strength (so far as ascertainable)?
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
NOTE. Details of any renewals or alterations required should be given in 7 below.
5. MAINTENANCE.
Are the following parts of the hoist or lift properly maintained and in good working order? If not, state what defects have been found. A separate answer is required for each part.
(a) Enclosure of hoistway or liftway............................................................................................................................
(b) Landing gates and cage gate(s)............................................................................................................................
(c) Interlocks on the landing gates and cage gate(s)..................................................................................................
(d) Other gate fastenings.............................................................................................................................................
(e) Cage or platform and fittings, cage guides, buffers, and interior of the hoistway or liftway...................................
.................................................................................................................................................................................
(f) Over-running devices..............................................................................................................................................
(g) Suspension ropes or chains, and their attachments..............................................................................................
(h) Safety gear, i.e. arrangements for preventing fall of platform or cage....................................................................
(i) Brakes.....................................................................................................................................................................
(j) Worm or spur gearing.............................................................................................................................................
(k) Other electrical equipment.......................................................................................................................................
(l) Other parts................................................................................................................................................................
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
6. What parts (if any) were inaccessible?
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
7. Repairs, renewals or alterations required to enable the hoist or lift to continue to be used with safety—
(a) immediately;
(b) within a specified time, the said time to be stated
(Continue entry overleaf if necessary)
NOTE. If no such repairs, renewals or alterations are required the word “NONE” is to be entered.
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
8. Defects (other than those specified at 7 above) which require attention (Continue entry overleaf if necessary)
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
9. Maximum safe working load subject to repairs, renewals or alterations (if any) specified at 7
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
10. Other observations (Continue entry overleaf if necessary)
...............................................................................................................................................................................................
I/We ................................................................................................................................(full name(s) in BLOCK CAPITALS)
certify that on ..................................................................................................................................I/we thoroughly examined this hoist or lift and that the foregoing is a correct report of the result.
Signature(s) .......................................................................................................................
Date .............................................
Qualifications ............................................................................................................................................................................
Address(es) ....................................... ......................................................................................................................................
...................................................................................................................................................................................................
If employed by a Company, Firm or Association give your position in the Company, etc., and their name and address
...................................................................................................................................................................................................
NOTE-This report is to be attached to the general register.
[Am by SI 92 of 1974.]
PART VI
[Regulation 10]
REGISTER OF CHAINS, ROPES AND LIFTING TACKLE, AND LIFTING MACHINES
1. Name of the occupier of the factory.
2. Postal address and situation (i.e. number in and name of street, road, etc., or plot number) of the factory.
3. Distinguishing number or mark and description sufficient to identify the chain, rope or lifting tackle, or the lifting machine.
4. Date (if after 1-5-67) when the chain, rope or lifting tackle, or the lifting machine, was first taken into use in the factory.
5. Date and number of the report of each thorough examination of a chain, rope or lifting tackle made under section 51 (1) (d) of the Act at least once in every period of six months, and the name, signature and address of the person by whom it was carried out.
6. Date and number of the report of each thorough examination of all parts and working gear whether fixed or movable, including the anchoring and fixing appliance, of a lifting machine made under section 52 (2) of the Act at least once in every period of fourteen months, and the name, signature and address of the person by whom it was carried out.
7. Particulars of any defect found at any examination specified in 5 and 6 above and affecting the safe working load, and of the steps taken to remedy such defect.
8. Date and number of the certificate relating to any test and thorough examination made under section 51 (1) (e) of the Act of a chain, rope or lifting tackle (except a fibre rope or fibre rope sling) before being taken into use, and the name, signature and address of the person who issued the certificate.
9. Date and number of the certificate relating to any test and thorough examination made under section 52 (6) of a lifting machine and its working gear before being taken into use, and the name, signature and address of the person who issued the certificate.
10. Date of annealing or other heat treatment of wrought iron chains or lifting tackle required by an inspector under section 51 (3) of the Act.
PART VII
[Regulation 11]
Labour Form F/1
In all correspondence please quote this
REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
FACTORIES ACT
[Section 55]
THE FACTORIES (PLANT INSPECTION AND EXAMINATION FEES) REGULATIONS
THE FACTORIES (PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS AND FORMS) REGULATIONS
[Regulation 11]
FORM PRESCRIBED FOR REPORT OF EXAMINATION OF STEAM BOILER, SUPERHEATER OR ECONOMISER WHEN COLD
A fee of ................................................................. is due in respect of this examination.
1. Name of occupier . . . . . .
2. Address of factory where boiler, superheater or economiser is situated . . . .
3. Description and distinctive number of boiler, superheater or economizer . . . .
4. Country and year of manufacture
5. Fittings and attachments:
(a) Are there proper fittings and attachments?
(a)
6. Heating surface or grate area
(b) Are all fittings and attachments in in satisfactory condition (as far a ascertainable when not under pressure)?
(b)
7. Date of last hydraulic test (if any) and pressure applied .
8. Boiler, superheater or economiser:
(a) What examinations and tests were made?
(a)
(b) Condition of boiler, superheater or economiser
(b) External:
(c) What parts were inaccessible at this examination?
(c) Internal:
9. Repairs (if any) required, and period within which they should be executed, and other conditions which the authorised inspector thinks it necessary to specify for securing safe working
10. Other observations
11. Maximum permissible working pressure calculated from dimensions and other data ascertained by the present examination, due allowance being made for conditions of working if unusual or exceptionally severe.
Where repairs affecting the working pressure are required, state the maximum permissible working pressure:
(a) Before the expiration of the period specified in 9
(a)
(b) After the expiration of such period if the required repairs have not been completed
(b)
(c) After the completion of the required repairs
(c)
I .......................................................................(full name in BLOCK CAPITALS) hereby declare that
I am a duly authorised Inspector and that, subject to the reservation (noted above) of certain points for examination under steam pressure, on ....... the boiler above described was sufficiently scaled, prepared and (so far as its construction permits) made accessible for thorough examination and for such tests as were necessary for thorough examination, and that on the said date I thoroughly examined this boiler, including its fittings and attachments.
I certify that the above is a true report of the result.
......................................................................
Signature of Authorised InspectorDate ...............................................................Address ..........................................................
INVOICE
Dr. to: THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
Name: .........................................................................................................
Address: ......................................................................................................
Cheques or Postal Orders CROSSED “ACCOUNT PAYEE ONLY” for the amount
indicated below made payable to the GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF
ZAMBIA should be forwarded to the PERMANENT SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF
LABOUR, P.O. Box, LUSAKA.
This invoice must accompany your remittance.
K
Basic fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Additional fee for hydraulic test . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Additional fee for mileage, i.e., vessel not within 10 kilometres of prescribed boundaries
Additional fee in respect of waiting time, i.e. ............. hours at 60 fee units per hour or part thereof as vessel was not prepared at appointed time . . . . . .
TOTAL AMOUNT DUE . . . . . . . .
...................
General Receipt Number .............................................. dated ....................... 20 ......... attached.
NOTE FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION OF ACCOUNTANT ONLY:
(i) The General Receipt Number must be quoted.
(ii) The Invoice must be returned with Original General Receipt to the Addressee.
[Am by SI 92 of 1974; Act 13 of 1994.]
PART VIII
[Regulation 12]
BOILER BOOK
Date commenced steaming
Date discontinued steaming
Dates cleaned
Dates and nature of examinations
Details of alterations or repairs
Signature of person in charge of plant
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PART IX
[Regulation 13 and 14]
Labour Form F/2
(In all correspondence please quote this)
REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
FACTORIES ACT
[Sections 57 and 58]
THE FACTORIES (PLANT INSPECTION AND EXAMINATION FEES) REGULATIONS
THE FACTORIES (PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS AND FORMS) REGULATIONS
[Regulations 13 and 14]
FORM PRESCRIBED FOR THE REPORT OF EXAMINATION OF STEAM RECEIVER OR AIR RECEIVER
A fee of ....................................................... is due in respect of this examination.
1. Name of occupier
2. Address of factory where receiver is situated
3. Description and distinctive number of receiver and type
4. Country and year of manufacture
5. Date of last hydraulic test (if any) and pressure applied
6. Maximum pressure of steam/air at source of supply to receiver
7. Receiver:
(a) What parts (if any) were inaccessible?
(a)......
(b) What examinations and tests were made?
(b)
(c) Condition of receiver (state any defects materially affecting the maximum permissible working pressure or the safe working of the receiver)
(c) External:
Internal:
8. Fittings: Is the receiver so constructed as to withstand with safety the maximum pressure of steam/air at source of supply? If not, are the required fittings and appliances provided in accordance with the Act? Are all fittings and appliances properly maintained and in good condition?
9. Repairs (if any) required, and period within which they should be executed, and any other conditions which the authorised inspector thinks it necessary to specify for securing safe working
10. Maximum permissible pressure calculated from dimensions and other data ascertained by the present examination, due allowance being made for conditions of working if unusual or exceptionally severe:
Where repairs affecting the working pressure are required, state the maximum permissible working pressure:
(a) Before the expiration of the period specified in 9
(a)
(b) After the expiration of such period if the required repairs have not been completed . .
(b)
(c) After the completion of the required repairs(c)
11. Other observations
I (full name in BLOCK CAPITALS) ........................................................... hereby declare that I am a duly authorised Inspector for the purposes of section 7 of the Factories Act and that, subject to the reservation (noted above) of certain points for examination under steam/air pressure, on .........................20 .......
I thoroughly examined, so far as the construction of the receiver permits, the steam/air receiver above described.
I certify that the above is a true report of the result.
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Signature of Authorised InspectorDate ...............................................................Address ..........................................................
INVOICE
Dr. to: THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
Name: .........................................................................................................
Address: ......................................................................................................
Cheques or Postal Orders CROSSED “ACCOUNT PAYEE ONLY” for the amount
indicated below made payable to the GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
should be forwarded to the PERMANENT Secretary, Ministry of Labour, P.O. Box, Lusaka
This Invoice must accompany your Remittance
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Basic fee
Additional fee for hydraulic test
Additional fee for mileage, i.e., vessel not within 10 kilometres of prescribed boundaries
Additional fee in respect of waiting time, i.e. ............. hours at 60 fee units per hour or part
thereof as vessel was not prepared at appointed time
TOTAL AMOUNT DUE
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General Receipt Number .............................................. dated ....................... 20 ......... attached.
(i) The General Receipt Number must be quoted.
(ii) The Invoice must be returned with Original General
Receipt to the Addressee
[Am by Act 13 of 1994.]
PART X
[Regulations 15 and 16]
Labour Form F/6
REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
FACTORIES ACT
[Sections 76 and 77]
PRESCRIBED FORM OF WRITTEN NOTICE OF ACCIDENT OR DANGEROUS OCCURRENCE IN A FACTORY
FOR OFFICIAL USE
District and date of receipt.
NOTE. For accidents occurring on building operations or works of engineering construction use Labour Form F/10.
M.R. GROUP Ref. to
1. OCCUPIER OR EMPLOYER
1. Serial No.......................
(a) Name of occupier of premises ......................................................................................
2. M.W.B.G. ......................
(b) Actual employer of injured person if other than above:
3. Age Group ......................
Name ...................................................................................................................................
4. F.N.F.D.O. ......................
Address ................................................................................................................................
4. (a)...................................
2. PREMISES
4. (b) .................................
Situation and postal address of works where accident or dangerous occurrence
happened: ............................................................................................................................
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5. Process......................
3. INDUSTRY
6. S.I.C...............................
Nature of industry ...............................................................................................................
7. (a) Causation..................
4. EXACT PLACE
7. (b) ...................................
Exact place in the works where the accident or dangerous occurrence happened
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7. (c)....................................
5. INJURED PERSON
7. (d)...................................
(a) Injured person’s full names
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(b) National Registration Number
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(c) Address
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(d) Age ................. (e) Sex ............... (f) Occupation ........................
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(g) Hour at which person started work on day of accident .................................................
7 (i)....................................
6. ACCIDENT OR DANGEROUS OCCURRENCE, DETAILS
7 (j)....................................
(a) Date ..................................... (b) Time ................................................(c) Full details of how accident or dangerous occurrence happened and what injured person was doing at the time. If a fall of a person, materials, etc., state height of fall (if necessary continue overleaf)
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8. Occupation......................
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9. Injury .............................
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Nature I Site........................
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(d) If due to machinery, state—
(i) Name and type of machine and name of part causing accident .............................................................................
(ii) Whether in motion by mechanical power at the time ..............................................................................................
(iii) If caused by crane or other lifting machine, and specify type ..................................................................................
7. NATURE AND EXTENT OF INJURIES
Details (e.g. fractured left leg, scalded right arm followed by sepsis, etc.) ..............................................................................
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8. RESULT OF ACCIDENT
(a) Did accident result in death? ............................................................................................................................................
(b) If not fatal, was injured person disabled for more than three days from* earning full wages at the work at which he was
employed? ........................................................................................................................................................................
*NOTE.-Even if injured person has been paid full wages while off work, or while working on a lighter job than his usual work, he has not earned those full wages and the accident should be reported on the fourth day after its occurrence.
9. Has accident (or dangerous occurrence) been entered in the—
General Register? ........................................................................................................................................................................
Signature of Occupier, Employer or Agent ....................................................................
Date ........................................................
PART XI
[Regulation 17]
Labour Form F/9
REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA THE FACTORIES ACT
[Section 78]
FORM OF REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL DISEASE TO BE SENT BY OCCUPIER OF FACTORY TO AN INSPECTOR OF FACTORIES
1. Name of occupier..........................................................................................................................................................
2. Situation and postal address of factory.........................................................................................................................
3. Nature of industry...........................................................................................................................................................
4. Nature of disease...........................................................................................................................................................
5. Particulars of person:
(a) Full names............................................................................................................................................................
(b) National Registration Number..............................................................................................................................
(c) Address................................................................................................................................................................
(d) Age .......................... (e) Sex.................... (f) Occupation...................................................................................
6. Nature of person’s employment at time disease was contracted.................................................................................
7. By whom diagnosed and on what date..........................................................................................................................
Date................................................................ Signature ...................................................................................................
PART XII
[Regulation 18]
Labour Form F/30
REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
FACTORIES ACT
[Section 85]
ABSTRACT OF THE ACT IN FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE MINISTER
(To be kept posted in a prominent position in every factory)
INSPECTOR OF FACTORIES
(To whom communications relative to the Act should be addressed)
Address.................................................................................................................................................................................
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Telephone .............................................................................................................................................................................
LABOUR OFFICER
Address.................................................................................................................................................................................
Telephone.............................................................................................................................................................................
Name of Occupier................................................................................................................................................................
Postal Address.....................................................................................................................................................................
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HEALTH
1. Cleanliness. Every factory must be kept clean. In particular, accumulations of dirt and refuse must be removed daily from floors and benches; the floor of every workroom must be cleaned at least once a week and, where wet processes are carried on, adequate means for draining the floor must be provided. All inside walls, partitions and ceilings must—
(i) if they have a smooth impervious surface, be washed with hot water and soap or cleaned by other approved method every 14 months, or
(ii) if kept painted in a prescribed manner or varnished, be repainted or revarnished at least once every 7 years and washed with hot water, etc., every 14 months, or
(iii) in other cases, be whitewashed or colourwashed every 14 months (Section 19).
The prescribed particulars must be entered in the General Register (Sections 19 and 86).
2. Overcrowding. A factory must not be overcrowded. There must be in each workroom at least 12 cubic metres of space for every person employed, not counting space more than 4 metres from the floor.
3. Every workroom must not be less than 3.048 metres in height, measured from the floor to the lowest point of the ceiling or, where there is no ceiling, to the lowest point of the roofing material (Section 20).
4. Ventilation. Adequate ventilation of workrooms must be secured by the circulation of fresh air. All practicable measures must be taken to protect workers against inhalation of dust, fumes or other impurities likely to be injurious or offensive, and local exhaust ventilation must be provided and maintained where practicable (Sections 21 and 69).
5. Lighting. There must be sufficient and suitable lighting in every part of the factory in which persons are working or passing (Section 22).
6. Sanitary Conveniences. Sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences, separate for each sex, must be provided. The conveniences must be maintained and kept clean and effective provision must be made for lighting them (Section 23).
7. Meals in Certain Dangerous Trades. A person must not partake of food or drink in workrooms where any poisonous substance is so used as to give rise to dust or fume (Section70).
8. Protective Clothing, Appliances and Screening: Suitable protective clothing and appliances including, where necessary, suitable gloves, footwear, goggles and head coverings, must be provided and maintained for the use of workers employed in any process involving excessive exposure to heat, cold or wet or to any poisonous or other injurious or offensive substance.
9. Suitable goggles or effective screens must be provided to protect the eyes of persons employed in any process likely to entail injury to the eyes and screening or other effective provision must be made to protect the eyes of any person exposed to electric arc welding flash (Section 71).
10. Lifting Excessive Weights. No one must be employed to lift, carry or move any load so heavy as to be likely to cause injury (Section 72).
11. Notification of Industrial Diseases. Cases of poisoning by lead, phosphorus, arsenic, mercury, carbon bisulphide, manganese, cyanide or aniline; chronic poisoning by benzene; compressed air illness; anthrax; toxic jaundice due to tetrachlorethane or nitro- or amido- derivatives of benzene or other poisonous substance; toxic anaemia, epitheliomatus ulceration, and chrome ulceration must forthwith be reported to an Inspector of Factories and entered in the General Register (Section 78).
SAFETY
12. Fencing. Every part of the transmission machinery and every dangerous part of other machinery, and all parts of electric generators, motors, rotary converters, and flywheels directly connected to them, must be securely fenced unless in such a position or of such construction as to be as safe to every person employed or working on the premises as if securely fenced; and any part of a stock-bar which projects beyond the head-stock of a lathe must be securely fenced unless it is in such a position as to be as safe to every such person as if securely fenced. A male person over 18 may, however, approach unfenced machinery in motion in certain strictly limited contingencies and subject to the strict conditions specified in the Act (Sections 27 to 30).
13. Moving parts of other prime movers, and flywheels directly connected to them, and the head and tail race of a water wheel or water turbine, must be securely fenced irrespective of their position (Section 27).
14. Fixed vessels, pits, etc., containing scalding, corrosive or poisonous liquids, or any molten metal must, unless the edge is 1 metre above the adjoining ground or platform, be securely fenced to at least that height or be securely covered; where this is impracticable, other precautions, so far as practicable, must be taken. Where any such vessel is not securely covered, no ladder, stair or gangway may be placed above, across or inside it which is not at least 500 millimetres wide and securely fenced to a height of at least 1 metre and securely fixed. Where any such vessels adjoin each other, and the space between them is either less than 500 millimetres or is not securely fenced to at least 1 metre, barriers must be placed so as to prevent passage between them. Every vessel, pit, etc., must have a clear warning notice bearing in red letters in English and in at least one vernacular language commonly used by the employees, the word “DANGER” (Section 33).
15. All fencing must be of substantial construction and be maintained in an efficient state (Section 31).
16. Further Requirements in Connection with Transmission Machinery. Devices or appliances for promptly cutting off the power from the transmission machinery must be provided in every room or place where work is carried on. Every power-driven machine must be provided with an efficient starting and stopping appliance, the control of which must be readily accessible to the person operating the machine. Efficient mechanical appliances must be provided to move driving belts to and from fast and loose pulleys. Driving belts must not rest or ride on revolving shafts when the belt is not in use (Section 28).
17. New Machines. New power-driven machines must not be sold, let on hire, or used unless certain parts are effectively guarded (Section 32).
18. Self-acting Machines. Precautions are required to ensure that persons are not trapped between moving parts of a self-acting machine and any separate fixed structure or between moving and stationary parts of the machine (Section 34).
19. Training and Supervision of Inexperienced Workers. A person must not work at any dangerous machine or in any dangerous process unless—
(i) he has been fully instructed as to the dangers and precautions, and
(ii) he has received sufficient training in the work or is under adequate supervision (Section 35).
20. Construction of Floors, Stairs, etc. Floors, steps, stairs, passages and gangways must be soundly constructed, properly maintained and, so far as is reasonably practicable, kept free from obstruction and any substance likely to cause persons to slip. Handrails must be provided for stairs. All ladders must be soundly constructed and properly maintained and be properly secured to prevent slipping, have effective anti-skid devices, or be firmly held by a person stationed at the foot. Openings in floors shall, wherever practicable, be securely fenced (Section 36).
21. Safe Means of Access and Place of Work. So far as is reasonably practicable—
(i) there must be provided safe means of access to every place at which any person has at any time to work,
(ii) every such place must be made and kept safe for anyone working there,
(iii) fencing or other means must be provided to ensure the safety of any person who is to work at a place from which he would be liable to fall more than 2 metres and which does not afford secure foothold and, where necessary, secure handhold (Section 37).
22. Precautions Against Gassing or Lack of Oxygen. Special precautions are laid down for work in confined spaces where men are liable to be overcome by dangerous fumes or by lack of oxygen in the air (Section 38).
23. Explosion or Fire of Inflammable Dust or Gas. Precautions against explosion or fire are laid down for certain processes and for welding or soldering of (or other operations involving the application of heat to) containers which hold or have held any explosive or inflammable substance (Section 39).
24. Fire. Appropriate means for fighting fire must be provided and maintained and kept readily available in every factory irrespective of the number of persons employed. Persons trained in the correct use of such means must be present while work is going on in the factory. All highly inflammable substances must be stored in a fire-resisting store or in a safe place outside any occupied building. No fire, flame, smoking or other agency likely to ignite volatile inflammable substances is to be permitted where it may ignite such substances.
25. Adequate means of escape in case of fire must be provided in every factory. The contents of workrooms must be so arranged that there is a free passageway to the means of escape. While any person is in any factory for the purpose of employment or meals, doors must not be so locked or fastened that they cannot be easily and immediately opened from the inside. Any door which opens on to a staircase or corridor from any room in which more than 10 persons are employed must open outwards unless it is a sliding door. Exit doors at the foot of staircases must open outwards unless they are sliding doors. Adequate landings must be provided at doors giving access to stairways. All fire exits must be distinctively and conspicuously marked by a notice printed in red letters of adequate size. Hoistways and liftways inside buildings constructed after the 1st May, 1967, must be completely enclosed with fire-resisting materials and the means of access to them must be fitted with fire-resisting doors except that the top of unvented hoistways and liftways must be enclosed by material easily broken by fire.
26. Where more than 20 persons are employed in the same building effective fire alarms must be provided and maintained. Effective alarms must also be provided where explosive or highly inflammable materials are stored or used even if less than 20 persons are employed in the building. Alarms must be tested and examined every three months and a report entered in or attached to the General Register (Section 86). In factories employing more than 20 workers in the same building above the first floor or more than 6 metres above ground level, effective steps must be taken to ensure that all workers are familiar with the means of escape and their use and the routine to be followed in case of fire. These precautions must also be taken where explosive or highly inflammable materials are stored or used even if less than 20 persons are employed in the building (Sections 40 to 45).
27. Hoists or Lifts. Every hoist or lift must be of good mechanical construction, sound material and adequate strength and must be properly maintained. It must be thoroughly examined every six months by a competent person whose report must be entered in or attached to the General Register.
28. Every hoistway or liftway must be efficiently protected by a substantial enclosure and landing gates with efficient interlocking or other devices. The safe working load must be marked conspicuously on each hoist. Additional safeguards (e.g. devices to prevent over-running, interlocking gates for cages and devices to support the platform or cage if hoisting ropes or attachments should break) must be provided on hoists or lifts used for carrying persons, whether with goods or otherwise. The requirements are somewhat less stringent in the case of hoists or lifts constructed before the 1st May, 1967; hoists not connected with mechanical power, and continuous hoists.
29. Every teagle opening or similar doorway used for hoisting or lowering goods must be fenced (except when the hoisting or lowering is going on at that opening) and be provided with a secure handhold on each side of the opening (Sections 47 to 49).
30. Chains, Ropes and Lifting Tackle. No chain, robe or lifting tackle used for raising or lowering persons, goods, materials or plant may be used unless it is of good construction, sound material, adequate strength, suitable quality and free from patent defect. Tables of safe working loads must be posted in the stores and elsewhere, but need not cover any lifting tackle the safe working load of which is marked on the tackle itself. No tackle shall be used for any load exceeding its stated safe working load (except when being tested by a competent person). Chains, ropes and lifting tackle must be thoroughly examined by a competent person every six months, and must not (excepting fibre ropes and fibre rope slings) be taken into use for the first time in the factory unless they have been tested and certified.
31. An Inspector of Factories may require wrought iron chains or lifting tackle to be annealed or otherwise treated by heat at specified intervals.
32. A register of all chains, etc., and also the certificates of tests and reports of examinations must be kept (Sections 51 and 53).
33. Cranes and Other Lifting Machines. All parts and working gear (including anchoring appliances) of cranes and other lifting machines must be of good mechanical construction, sound material, adequate strength and free from patent defect, and must be properly maintained. A thorough examination of all such parts and gear by a competent person must be made every 14 months. A lifting machine must not be taken into use for the first time in the factory unless it has been tested and certified. A register of examinations and tests must be kept. The safe working load or loads must be shown on every lifting machine: in the case of cranes with a derricking jib, an automatic indicator or a table of safe working loads must be attached to the crane. No lifting machine shall be loaded above its stated safe working load (except when being tested by a competent person).
34. Rails and tracks of travelling cranes and transporters must be of proper size and construction. If any person is working near the wheel track of an overhead travelling crane, steps must be taken to ensure that the crane does not approach within 6 metres of the person. Effective measures must be taken to give warning of the approach of such a crane to anyone working above floor level and liable to be struck by it or its load (Sections 52 and 53).
35. Steam Boilers, Steam Receivers, etc. Every part of every steam boiler and steam receiver must be of good construction, sound material, adequate strength and free from patent defect. Detailed requirements are laid down as to the valves and other fittings. The outlet of every steam container must at all times be kept open and free from obstruction.
36. Steam boilers and steam receivers and their fittings must be properly maintained and must be thoroughly examined by a Government Inspector or other person authorised by the Labour Commissioner, in the case of boilers every 18 months and after extensive repairs, and in the case of steam receivers every 36 months. New boilers must have manufacturers’ certificates. A report of each examination of a steam boiler or a steam receiver must be attached to the Boiler Book.
37. Every steam boiler attendant must be properly instructed in his duties.
38. No modification, unless sanctioned by the manufacturer, must be made to any pressure part of any steam boiler or steam receiver until an Inspector has been notified in writing (Sections 54 to 57 and 60).
39. Air Receivers. Every air receiver and its fittings must be of sound construction and properly maintained. Detailed requirements are laid down as to the fittings.
40. Air receivers must be thoroughly cleaned, and be examined or tested by a Government Inspector or other person authorised by the Labour Commissioner every 36 months, and a report entered in or attached to the General Register (Sections 58 and 86).
41. No modification, unless sanctioned by the manufacturer, must be made to any pressure part of any air receiver until an Inspector has been notified in writing (Section 60).
42. Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences. Accidents causing loss of life or disabling a worker for more than three days from earning full wages at the work at which he was employed must be reported forthwith to an Inspector of Factories and entered in the General Register
43. Certain dangerous occurrences must also be reported whether disablement is caused or not, e.g., the bursting of a revolving vessel, wheel, grindstone or grinding wheel moved by mechanical power, the collapse or failure of a crane, hoist or other lifting appliance or any part thereof, or the overturning of a crane; and explosions or fires in certain circumstances (Sections 76, 77 and 86).
WELFARE
44. Drinking Water. An adequate supply of wholesome drinking water must be provided (Section 63).
45. Washing Facilities. Adequate and suitable washing facilities and suitable means of drying must be provided and maintained in a clean and orderly condition (Section 64).
46. Accommodation for Clothing. Adequate and suitable accommodation for clothing not worn during working hours, and for protective clothing, must be provided and maintained.
47. The Minister may by order direct that adequate change rooms shall be provided and maintained in any factory where he considers such rooms are necessary (Section 65).
48. Facilities for Sitting. Where any employed persons (irrespective of sex) have in the course of their employment reasonable opportunities for sitting without detriment to their work, there must be provided for their use suitable facilities sufficient to enable them to take advantage of those opportunities. There are detailed requirements as to seats and sitting arrangements for work of which a substantial proportion can properly be done sitting (Section 66).
49. First-aid. In every factory there must be provided a first-aid box or cupboard of the prescribed standard, containing nothing except first-aid requisites, and in charge of a responsible person who must always be readily available during working hours. In every workroom a notice must be affixed stating the name of the person in charge of the box or cupboard provided in respect of that room. Where more than 100 persons are employed at one time, an additional box or cupboard for every additional 100 persons or fraction of that number is required.
50. In factories where more than 50 persons are employed the responsible person in charge of the first-aid box or cupboard must satisfy prescribed conditions as to training in first-aid treatment (Section 67 and Regulations).
GENERAL
51. Registration. Before any premises are occupied or used as a factory, a Certificate of Registration must be obtained from the Labour Commissioner (Sections 11 to 15).
52. Special Regulations for Safety, Health and Welfare made for particular factories, industries, processes, plant, etc., must be observed, and printed copies of all such regulations, or prescribed abstracts thereof, in force in any factory must be kept posted in the factory (Section 85).
53. General Register. The occupier must keep a General Registry in the prescribed form (Section 86).
54. Duties of Persons Employed. A person employed must not wilfully interfere with or misuse any means, appliance, convenience or other thing provided in pursuance of the Act for securing health, safety or welfare and he must use any means or appliance for securing health or safety provided for his use under the Act. He must not wilfully and without reasonable cause do anything likely to endanger himself or others (Section 89).
55. These special duties supplement the general duty of employed persons not to commit breaches of the Act even though the employer may be primarily responsible for seeing that they are observed: where an act or default for which a factory occupier or owner is liable under the Act is in fact the act or default of some other person (e.g., an agent or worker) that person can be prosecuted and is liable to the same fine as the occupier or owner (Section 93).
56. Inspection. Inspectors have power to enter, inspect and examine every part of a factory by day or by night. They may require the production of registers, certificates and other papers. They may examine any person found in the factory, either alone or in the presence of any other person as they think fit, and may require him to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters about which he is examined. They may also exercise such other power as may be necessary for carrying the Act into effect, including certain powers of taking samples for analysis. Every person obstructing an Inspector is liable to a penalty (Sections 7, 8, 9 and 75).
[Am by SI 92 of 1974.]
PART XIII
REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
FACTORIES ACT
(Section 86)
THE FACTORIES (PRESCRIBED PARTICULARS AND FORMS) REGULATIONS
[Regulation 19]
GENERAL REGISTER FOR FACTORIES
This register must be kept available for inspection by Inspectors of Factories for two years after the date of the last entry therein
SECTION A. GENERAL.
Name of occupier (In the case of a firm which is not a Limited Company, the names of each proprietor or partner should be entered).............................
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Postal address of factory.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Registered office address (If different from above)..................................................................................................................................................................
Situation of factory (i.e., number in, or plot number, and name of street, road, etc.) .............................................................................................................
Nature of work carried on.........................................................................................................................................................................................................
REPORTS AND CERTIFICATES REQUIRED TO BE ATTACHED TO THE GENERAL REGISTER
CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION OF THE FACTORY
Date of issue...................................... No. of Certificate.............................
Such documents should be attached to the gummed slips at the beginning or end of this Register, or if the space is insufficient, they may be kept, apart from other papers, in a separate cover attached to this Register.
When a new Register is taken into use, reports and certificates still current or in operation should be transferred to the new Register.
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Other Certificates issued by the Labour Commissioner or Chief Inspector of Factories
(Indicate nature of certificate)
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Date of Certificate
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Name(s) of person(s) (if any) appointed under section 30 of the Factories Act to carry out examinations or operations at unfenced machinery in accordance with the provisions of that section.
Date of appointment
(The certificate(s) of appointment must be attached to this Register and a signed copy furnished to each person so appointed)
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SECTION B. WASHING, PAINTING, WHITEWASHING, ETC.
Dates
Parts washed, whitewashed or colourwashed, painted, varnished, or otherwise treated on the dates specified in columns (1) to (3)
Name and address of the person by whom the work specified in columns (4) and (5) was done
(6)
Day
(1)
Month
(2)
Year
(3)
Parts of factory treated
(4)
Full particulars of treatment given
(5)
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SECTION C. TESTING OR EXAMINATION OF FIRE WARNING SYSTEMS
Description of warning system
(1)
Date of test or examination
(2)
Particulars of defects found
(3)
Particulars of action taken to remedy defects
(4)
Date action taken
(5)
Signature of person making examination
(6)
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SECTION D. ACCIDENTS AND DANGEROUS OCCURRENCES
Date of accident or occurrence
(1)
Date of notice sent on Form F/6 to Inspector of Factories
(2)
Name of person injured
(3)
Sex
(4)
Age
(5)
Usual employment
(6)
Precise occupation at time of accident
(7)
How caused e.g. whether by machinery in motion and by what part of such machinery
(8)
Nature of injury and whether fatal or not
(9)
Period of disablement
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SECTION E. CASES OF INDUSTRIAL DISEASE
Date of notice sent on Form F/9 to Inspector of Factories
(1)
Person affected
Occupation
(5)
Name of disease
(6)
Name of examining medical practitioner
(7)
Period of incapacity; if fatal, state “FATAL”
(8)
REMARKS
(9)
Name
(2)
Sex
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Age
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FACTORIES (BENZENE) REGULATIONS
[Section 74]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
3. Restriction on use of benzene
5. Restriction on concentration of benzene in air
6. Prevention of escape of vapour
7. Work to be carried out in enclosed area
8. Protection against skin contact
9. Protection against benzene vapour
11. Use of protective clothing
12. Prohibition of consumption of meals in work rooms
13. Washing and eating facilities
15. Employment of pregnant and nursing mothers
16. Employment of persons under age
[Regulations by the Minister]
SI 179 of 1978,
SI 158 of 1993.
These Regulations may be cited as the Factories (Benzene) Regulations, and shall apply to all factories where benzene or products containing benzene are manufactured, handled or used.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“benzene” means the aromatic hydrocarbon benzene C6H6;
“products containing benzene” means products the benzene content of which exceeds one per cent by volume.
3. Restriction on use of benzene
Whenever harmless or less harmful substitute products are available, such products shall be used instead of benzene or products containing benzene.
The provisions of regulation 3 shall not apply to—
(a) the production of benzene;
(b) the use of benzene for chemical synthesis;
(c) the use of benzene in motor fuel; or
(d) analytical or research work carried out in laboratories.
5. Restriction on concentration of benzene in air
In any factory where persons are exposed to benzene or products containing benzene, the concentration of benzene in the air in such factory shall not exceed twenty-five parts per million (80 mg/m3).
6. Prevention of escape of vapour
All necessary measures shall be taken to prevent the escape of benzene vapour into the air in work rooms where benzene or products containing benzene are manufactured, handled or used.
7. Work to be carried out in enclosed area
(1) Work processes involving the use of benzene or products containing benzene shall be carried out in an enclosed system.
(2) Where it is not practicable for the work processes to be carried out in an enclosed system as stated in sub-regulation (1), efficient means shall be provided to ensure the removal of benzene vapour.
[Am by SI 158 of 1993.]
8. Protection against skin contact
Any person who may have skin contact with benzene or products containing benzene shall be provided with adequate means of personal protection against the risks of absorbing benzene through the skin.
9. Protection against benzene vapour
Any person who for special reasons may be exposed to concentration of benzene in the air which exceeds the maximum referred to in regulation 5 shall be provided with adequate means of personal protection against the risks of inhaling benzene vapour.
Every person exposed to benzene or products containing benzene shall be provided with suitable protective clothing which, together with the means of protection referred to in regulations 8 and 9, shall be cleaned and maintained by the employer.
11. Use of protective clothing
Every person supplied with means of personal protection or protective clothing shall use them at all times during working hours.
12. Prohibition of consumption of meals in work rooms
No food shall be taken into or consumed in work rooms in which benzene or products containing benzene are manufactured, handled or used.
13. Washing and eating facilities
All factories where benzene or products containing benzene are manufactured, handled or used shall be equipped with—
(a) sufficient and suitable washing facilities;
(b) suitable accommodation for taking meals, unless appropriate arrangements exist for meals to be taken elsewhere; and
(c) change rooms where work clothes can be stored separately from the ordinary clothes.
(1) Every person employed in processes involving exposure to benzene or products containing benzene shall undergo—
(a) a pre-employment medical examination for fitness which shall include a blood test; and
(b) periodical re-examination at intervals not exceeding twelve months which shall include biological and blood tests.
(2) The medical examinations referred to in sub-regulation (1) shall be carried out during working hours under the supervision of a qualified physician.
(3) Such medical examinations shall not involve the employed person in any expense.
15. Employment of pregnant and nursing mothers
Any woman medically certified as pregnant and any nursing mother shall not be employed in work processes involving exposure to benzene or products containing benzene.
16. Employment of persons under age
Young persons under the age of eighteen years shall not be employed in work processes involving exposure to benzene or products containing benzene except where they are undergoing education or training and are under adequate technical and medical supervision.
Benzene or products containing benzene shall only be brought into work rooms in containers which are of suitable material and of adequate strength and so designed and constructed as to prevent any leakage or escape of vapours.
The word “Benzene” shall be clearly labelled and be visible on any container holding benzene or products containing benzene.
Persons employed in factories where benzene or products containing benzene are manufactured, handled or used shall receive appropriate training and instructions on measures to safeguard health and prevent accidents as well as taking necessary action in case of benzene poisoning.
In factories where benzene or products containing benzene are manufactured, handled or used, notices shall be displayed in prominent positions indicating—
(a) the hazards which are likely to happen;
(b) preventive measures to be taken;
(c) protective equipment to be used; and
(d) first-aid measures to be taken in case of benzene poisoning.
Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to the penalties prescribed in section 92 of the Factories Act.
FACTORIES (PLANT INSPECTION AND EXAMINATION FEES) REGULATIONS
[Sections 74 and 105]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
3. Fees payable on inspection of steam boiler, steam receiver or air receiver
4. Notification of intended inspection
5. Surcharge payable when steam boiler, etc, is not prepared for examination at specified time
6. Revocation of SI No. 106 of 2000
SI 8 of 2018.
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Factories (Plant Inspection and Examination Fees) Regulations.
(2) These Regulations apply to factories, building operations and works of engineering construction.
A steam boiler, steam receiver and air receiver shall be inspected periodically as stipulated under Part VIII of the Act.
3. Fees payable on inspection of steam boiler, steam receiver or air receiver
Where an inspector or other person authorised by the Commissioner inspects or examines a steam boiler, steam receiver or air receiver the appropriate fee specified in Parts I and II of the Schedule shall be paid in respect of each inspection or examination.
4. Notification of intended inspection
When a steam boiler, steam receiver or air receiver is due for inspection or examination by an inspector or a person authorised by the Commissioner, the Commissioner shall notify the owner or user of any such vessel or the occupier of the premises by registered letter of the date and time when such inspection or examination shall be carried out and that letter shall be sent to the owner, user or occupier, as the case may be, at least 10 days before the proposed date of inspection.
5. Surcharge payable when steam boiler, etc, is not prepared for examination at specified time
(1) Where an inspector or a person authorised by the Commissioner has arranged to inspect or examine a plant on a date and a time specified in a registered letter but is unable to carry out the inspection or examination at the prescribed time because of lack of preparation on the part of the owner, user or occupier, such owner, or user or occupier is liable to the following surcharges in addition to the applicable fees—
(a) where preparations may be made to allow the plant to be inspected or examined within one hour of the prescribed time, a surcharge of one thousand units; and
(b) where preparations cannot be made to allow the inspection or examination to be carried out within one hour of the prescribed time, a surcharge equal to the basic fee.
(2) An inspector shall, where an inspection or examination cannot be carried out for any reason, in addition to the surcharge, issue an Inspection Report showing a “Nil” entry against “Maximum Permissible Pressure” in respect of the steam boiler, steam receiver or air receiver to be inspected or examined and such Inspection Report shall remain in force until a time that further arrangements can be made to inspect or examine such steam boiler, steam receiver or air receiver.
6. Revocation of SI No. 106 of 2000
The Factories (Plant Inspection and Examination Fees) Regulations, 2006 are revoked.
[Paragraph 2]
PART I
BASIC FEES
Fee Units
1. Steam Boiler
(1) Boiler having a grate area of (or evaporation rate of steam per hour)
(a) less than 1 square metre (1000 kg or less)
2250
(b) not less than 1 square metre but less than 2 square metres
2450
(c) 2 square metres or more (2000 kg or more)
2700
(2) Boilers having no normal grate, in the case of a boiler with heating surface of
(a) less than 25 square metres (less than 5000 kg)
2700
(b) not less than 25 square metres but less than 55 square metres (more than 5000 kg but less than 10,000 kg)
3600
(c) 55 square metres or more (10,000 kg but less than 30,000)
3600
(d) More than 30,000kg
5300
(3) Each economiser, each superheater (when carried out separately from the boiler examination)
2700
(4) Each steam tube oven or steam tube hot plate
2700
2. Electrically heated boilers
Boilers having a diameter of-—
(a) less than 600 mm (less than 100 litres)
2250
(b) 600 mm or more (more than 100 litres but less than 1000 litres or more)
2400
3. Steam Receivers
Receivers having a diameter of—
(a) more than 450 mm (less than 1000 litres)
2500
(b) more than 450 mm (less than 1500 litres)
2700
(c) 750 mm or more (1500 litres or more)
3500
4. Air Receivers
Receivers having a diameter of
(a) less than 450 mm (less than 1000 litres)
2000
(b) more than 450 mm but less than 750 mm (more than 1000 litres but less than 1500 litres)
2400
(c) 750 mm or more (1500 litres or more)
2700
PART II
Fee Units
1. Each hydraulic test of a steam boiler, steam receiver or air receiver
25 per cent of the appropriate basic fee
2. Each inspection or examination of steam boiler, steam receiver or air receiver under normal pressure (when carried out at the request of the owner, user or occupier)
10 per cent of the appropriate basic fee
3. Each inspection or examination of steam boiler, steam or air receiver other than inspections or examinations arranged out by registered letters (when carried out at the request of the owner, user or occupier)
100 per cent of the appropriate basic fee
4. Each inspection or examination carried out anywhere in Zambia, except within a radius of 10 kilometres of an established factories
25 per cent of the appropriate basic fee
FACTORIES (LIFTING MACHINERY) (INSPECTION AND EXAMINATION) (FEES) REGULATIONS
[Sections 74 and 105]
Arrangement of Regulations
Regulation
3. Fees payable on inspection of lifting machinery
4. Notification of intended inspection or examination
5. Surcharge payable for lifting machinery which is not prepared for examination at specified time
6. Fees payable on suspension of operation of lifting machinery
7. Revocation of SI No. 195 of 1996
SI 9 of 2018.
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Factories (Lifting Machinery) (Inspection and Examination) (Fees) Regulations.
(2) These Regulations apply to factories, building operations, works of engineering construction and non-factory buildings.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“competent person” has the meaning assigned to the words in the Act;
“lifting machinery” means a lift, hoist, chain, rope, lifting tackle, forklift, reach truck, lifting platform, stacking machine or crane.
3. Fees payable on inspection of lifting machinery
An owner or user of any lifting machinery shall pay in respect of an inspection or examination done by a competent person, an inspector or a person authorised by the Commissioner to do so, the appropriate fees specified in Parts I, II or III of the Schedule.
4. Notification of intended inspection or examination
(1) The owner or the user of any lifting machinery shall notify the competent person at least 14 days before due date of the required inspection or examination of lifting machinery.
(2) When lifting machinery is due for inspection or examination by a competent person, the Commissioner shall notify the owner or user of that lifting machinery by registered letter of the date and time when such inspection or examination shall be carried out and that letter shall be sent to the owner or user, as the case may be, at least 10 days before the proposed date of inspection.
5. Surcharge payable for lifting machinery which is not prepared for examination at specified time
(1) Where a competent person has arranged with the owner or user of any lifting machinery to inspect or examine it on a date and time specified in accordance with regulation 4(2) but is unable to carry out the inspection or examination at the prescribed time due to delay caused by lack of preparation on the part of the owner or user, the owner or user is liable to the following surcharges in addition to the prescribed fees—
(a) where there has been a delay of one hour or less, one thousand penalty units; and
(b) where there has been a delay of more than one hour, a surcharge equal to the basic fees.
6. Fees payable on suspension of operation of lifting machinery
Where a competent person suspends the operation of any lifting machinery on safety grounds, the owner or user of the lifting machinery shall pay a fee of one and half times the basic fee for the inspection or examination of the lifting machinery, except that where the suspension is due to decommissioning of the lifting machinery a suspension fee shall not be payable.
7. Revocation of SI No. 195 of 1996
The Factories (Lifting Machinery) (Inspection and Examination) (Fees) Regulations, 1996 are revoked.
[Regulation 3]
FEES PAYABLE FOR INSPECTION OR EXAMINATION OF LIFTING MACHINERY
PART I
Fee Units
LIFT INSTALLATIONS
(1) An electric traction lift carrying persons or goods having—
(a) load carrying capacity up 800 kg (10 passengers)
1333
(b) carrying capacity up to 1000 kg (13 passengers)
1600
(c) load carrying capacity up to 1200 kg (16 passengers)
1800
(d) load carrying capacity up to 1400 kg (18 passengers)
2000
(e) load carrying capacity of more than 1400 kg
2667
(2) Hydraulic passenger or goods lift having—
(a) load carrying capacity up to 1000 kg (13 passengers)
1000
(b) load carrying capacity of more than 1000 kg
1500
(3) Escalator or travolator
1200
(4) Dumbwaiter
1167
PART II
LIFT INSTALLATIONS
(1) Each traction and brake test at rated speed and 125 per centum rated load
25 percentum of appropriate basic fee
(2) Each instantaneous safety gear test at rated load and speed or progressive safety gear test at one hundred and 25 per centum rated load at a reduced (inspection) speed
25per centum of appropriate basic fee
(3) Each subsequent inspection or examination, to verify repairs requested for completion within a specified period, following a scheduled inspection or examination
50 per centum of appropriate basic fee
(4) Each inspection or examination of a new lift installation or after undergoing a modernisation or major refurbishment, inclusive of items (1) and (2)
100 per centum of appropriate basic fee
(5) Each additional 100 kilogrammes or one person to the load rating in 1, Whichever is applicable
126 fee units (25.20) added to the basic fee
(6) Each inspection or examination of a lift installation under conditions
40 per centum of appropriate basic fee
(7) Each inspection or examination carried out anywhere in Zambia except within 20 kilometer radius of the Inspector’s established base station
25 per centum of appropriate basic fee Distance charges
(8) Each kilometer of travel outside radius of the inspector’s established base station, K7.50 per kilometer charged for each visit to the area where the units to be inspected or examined are located
PART III
BASIC FEE
Cranes, Forklifts, Lifting Blocks and Slings
Fee Units
CRANES
(1) Overhead manual travelling crane having—
(a) load lifting capacity more than 5 tonnes
666.7
(b) load lifting capacity more than 5 tonnes and up to 10 tonnes
800
(c) load lifting capacity more than 10 tonnes but less than 20 tonnes
993
(d) load lifting capacity more than 20 tonnes
1000
(2) Overhead electric travelling crane having—
(a) load lifting capacity up to 3 tonnes
867
(b) load lifting capacity more than 3 tonnes and up to 10 tonnes
933
(c) load lifting capacity more than 10 tonnes and up to 15 tonnes
1067
(d) load lifting capacity more than 15 tonnes and up to 25 tonnes
1467
(e) load lifting capacity more than 25 tonnes and up to 40 tonnes
2000
(f) load lifting capacity more than 40 tonnes and up to 60 tonnes
2333
(g) load lifting capacity more than 60 tonnes
2667
(3) Fixed and mobile hydraulic cranes having—
(a) load lifting capacity up to 5 tonnes
900
(b) load lifting capacity more than 5 tonnes and up to 10 tonnes
1000
(c) load lifting capacity more than 10 tonnes and up to 20 tonnes
1200
(d) load lifting capacity more than 20 tonnes and up to 40 tonnes
1733
(e) load lifting capacity more than 40 tonnes and up to 60 tonnes
2000
(f) load lifting capacity more than 60 tonnes
2400
(4) Forklifts, platform, and reach truck having—
(a) load lifting capacity up to 3 tonnes
667
(b) load lifting capacity more than 3 tonnes and up to 5 tonnes
733
(c) load lifting capacity more than 5 tonnes and up to 10 tonnes
800
(d) load lifting capacity more than 10 tonnes and up to 15 tonnes
900
(e) load lifting capacity mere than 15 tonnes
933
(5) Chain or rope block having—
(a) load lifting capacity up to 3 tonnes
333
(b) load lifting capacity more than 3 tonnes and up to 5 tonnes
400
(c) load lifting capacity more than 5 tonnes and up to 10 tonnes
467
(d) load lifting capacity more than 10 tonnes
533
(6) Winches and grabs having—
(a) load lifting capacity up to 20 tonnes
867
(b) load lifting capacity more than 20 tonnes and up to 50 tonnes
1067
(c) load lifting capacity more than 50 tonnes
1333
(7) Stacking machines having—
(a) load lifting height up to 2 metres
800
(b) load lifting height more than 2 metres and up to 5 metres
900
(c) load lifting height more than 5 metres
1000
(8) Jacks, ram-type and screw-type - manually operated having—
(a) load lifting capacity up to 1 tonne
800
(b) load lifting capacity more than 10 tonnes and up to 20 tonnes
933
(c) load lifting capacity more than 20 tonnes and up to 50 tonnes
1200
(d) load lifting capacity more than 50 tonnes
1333
(9) Tirfors, Slings, Wire Ropes, Chain Slings, Shackles and attachments
(a) Tirfors
600
(b) Single leg sling
100
(c) Double leg sling
133
(d) Shackles and eye bolts
66.7
PART IV
LIFTING EQUIPMENT
1. Each power operated chain or pulley block and jack
25 per centum of appropriate basic fee
2. Each load test plus 25 per centum rated load
25 per centum of appropriate basic fee
3. Each subsequent inspection or examination, to verify repairs requested for completion within a specified period, following a scheduled inspection or examination
40 per centum of appropriate basic fee
4. Each inspection or examination carried out anywhere in Zambia except within 20 kilometer radius of Inspector’s established base station
25 per centum of appropriate basic fee
5. Each kilometer of travel outside 20 kilometer radius of inspector’s established base station, K7.50 per kilometer to be charged for each visit to the area, where the units to be inspected or examined are located
Distance charges
6. Each examination or inspection of a crane, forklift, chain block or Pulley block or adverse conditions
40 per centum of appropriate Basic fee
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