Section 46 of Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A: Appeals

(1) Every workplace shall be kept in a clean state, and free from effluvia arising from any drain, sanitary convenience or nuisance, and, without prejudice to the generality of subsection...

(1) An occupier shall ensure that his workplace shall not, while work is carried on, be so overcrowded as to cause risk of injury to the health of the persons employed therein. (2) Without prejudice...

(1) An occupier shall ensure that effective and suitable provision is made for securing and maintaining, by the circulation of fresh air in each workroom, the adequate ventilation of the...

(1) An occupier shall ensure that effective provision is made for securing and maintaining sufficient and suitable lighting, whether natural or artificial, in every part of his workplace in which...

Where any process is carried on which renders the floor liable to be wet to such an extent that the wet is capable of being removed by drainage, effective means shall be provided and maintained for...

(1) Sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for the persons employed in the workplace shall be provided, maintained and kept clean, and effective provision shall be made for lighting the...

The provisions of section 52 and of any rules made thereunder shall, in such areas as the Cabinet Secretary may by notice in the Gazette direct, be enforced by the local authority.

Where an occupational safety and health officer finds any act or default in relation to any drain, sanitary convenience, water supply, nuisance or other matter in a workplace which is liable to be...

All plant, machinery and equipment whether fixed or mobile for use either at the workplace or as a workplace, shall only be used for work which they are designed for and be operated by a competent...

(1) Every flywheel directly connected to any prime mover and every moving part of any prime mover, except prime mover referred to in subsection (3), shall be securely fenced, whether the flywheel or...

(1) Every part of transmission machinery shall be securely fenced. (2) Efficient devices or appliances shall be provided and maintained in every room or place where work is carried on by which the...

(1) Every dangerous part of any machinery, other than prime movers and transmission machinery shall be securely fenced: Provided that, in so far as the safety of a dangerous part of any machinery...

(1) Every employer shall— (a) be responsible for the safe condition of tools and equipment used by his employees, including tools and equipment which may be furnished by the employees; (b) ensure...

All fencing or other safeguards provided in pursuance of the provisions of this Part shall be of substantial construction, constantly maintained and kept in position while the parts required to be...

(1) Where any machine in a workplace is a machine intended to be driven by mechanical power— (a) every set-screw, bolt or key on any revolving shaft spindle, wheel or pinion shall be so sunk, encased...

(1) No traversing part of any self-acting machine and no material carried thereon shall, if the space over which it runs is a space over which any person is liable to pass, whether in the course of...

(1) Every hoist or lift shall be of good mechanical construction, sound material and adequate strength, free from patent defect and be properly maintained. (2) Every hoist or lift shall be thoroughly...

(1) The following provisions shall be complied with respect to every chain, rope or lifting tackle used for the purpose of raising or lowering persons, goods or materials— (a) no chain, rope or...

(1) All parts and working gear whether fixed or movable, including the anchoring and fixing appliances, of every lifting machine shall be of good construction, sound material, adequate strength and...

A register, containing the particulars set out in the Sixth Schedule, shall be kept in every workplace with respect to all chains, ropes or lifting tackle except fibre rope slings, to which section 64...

(1) Every steam boiler and all its fittings and attachments shall be of good construction, sound material, adequate strength and free from patent defect, and shall be properly maintained. (2) Every...

(1) Every steam receiver and all its fittings shall be of good construction, sound material, adequate strength, and free from patent defect, and shall be properly maintained. (2) Every steam...

(1) Every air receiver shall— (a) have marked upon it, so as to be plainly visible, the safe working pressure; (b) in the case of a receiver connected with an air compressing plant either be so...

(1) Every cylinder for compressed, liquefied and dissolved gases, and its fittings, shall be— (a) so designed as to be suitable for the particular circumstances of their use; and (b) of sufficient...

(1) Every refrigeration plant capable of being entered by an employee shall— (a) have all control valves situated outside the cold storage room; and (b) have all doors of the cold storage room...

Any person who, for the purposes of this Part, desires that an examination of any equipment or plant be carried out by a person approved for that purpose under this Part, and any person who desires to...

(1) Every fixed vessel, structure, sump or pit of which the edge is less than one metre above the adjoining ground or platform shall, if it contains any scalding, corrosive or poisonous liquid, either...

(1) All goods, articles and substances stored in a workplace shall be stored or stacked— (a) in such manner as will ensure their stability and prevent any fall or collapse of the stack; (b) in such...

(1) Every ladder to be issued in a workplace shall be of good construction, sound material, adequate strength and suitable for the purpose for which it is used and shall be properly...

(1) Machinery, equipment, personal protective equipment, appliances and hand tools used in all workplaces shall comply with the prescribed safety and health standards and be appropriately installed,...

(1) All floors, steps, stairs, passages and gangways in a workplace shall be of sound construction and be properly maintained. (2) All openings in floors shall be securely fenced, except in so far as...

(1) All stocks of highly inflammable substances shall be kept either in a fire-resisting store or in a safe place outside any occupied building: Provided that no such store shall be so situated as to...

(1) Where work has to be done inside any chamber, tank, vat, pit or other confined space, in which dangerous fumes are liable to be present— (a) the confined space shall be provided with adequate...

(1) Where, in connection with any grinding, sieving or other process giving rise to dust, there may escape into any workroom, dust of such a character and to such an extent as to be liable to explode...

(1) In every workplace or workroom there shall be— (a) provided and maintained, and conspicuously displayed and free from any obstruction so as to be readily accessible, means for extinguishing fire,...

(1) Every occupier of a workplace shall design evacuation procedures to be used during any emergency and have the procedures tested at regular intervals. (2) Every occupier shall take immediate steps...

(1) The Director shall, after consulting the Council, establish safety and health requirements based on risk assessments, technical standards and medical opinion, for the safe handling and...

(1) Every manufacturer, importer, supplier or distributor of chemicals shall make available to employers, material safety data sheets for chemicals and other hazardous substances, containing detailed...

(1) Every supplier of hazardous substances, whether as manufacturer, importer or distributor of hazardous substances shall ensure that containers filled with hazardous substances, are— (a) plainly...

Every supplier of chemicals whether as a manufacturer, importer or distributor shall ensure that all chemicals are— (a) classified according to their characteristics, properties such as toxicity,...

Where corrosive substances are used and there is danger of an employee being splashed thereby, the employer shall provide for use by an employee in case of an emergency— (a) adequate and readily...

The Cabinet Secretary may, after consultation with the Council, establish or adopt exposure limits on hazardous substances in the workplace so as to protect persons employed.

(1) In every workplace in which, in connexion with any process carried on, there is given off any dust or fume or other impurity of such a character and to such extent as to be likely to be injurious...

Where work involves exposure to air pollution, noise or vibration or any other adverse working conditions, a medical practitioner may recommend redeployment if he is of the opinion that the employee...

(1) Every occupier shall provide and maintain an adequate supply of wholesome drinking water at suitable points conveniently accessible to all persons employed. (2) A supply of drinking water which...

(1) Every occupier shall provide and maintain for the use of persons employed, adequate and suitable facilities for washing, which shall be conveniently accessible and shall be kept in a clean and...

Every occupier shall provide and maintain for the use of a person employed, adequate and suitable accommodation for clothing not worn during working hours.

Every occupier shall provide and maintain, for the use of a person employed whose work is done standing, suitable facilities for sitting, sufficient to enable the person employed to take advantage of...

Every occupier shall provide and maintain so as to be readily accessible, a first-aid box or cupboard of the prescribed standard.

(1) An employer shall issue a permit to work to any employee, likely to be exposed to hazardous work processes or hazardous working environment, including such work processes as the maintenance and...