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Browse Acts ↓(1) There shall be kept posted in a prominent position in every workplace— (a) the prescribed abstract of this Act; (b) a notice of the address of the Director and of the area occupational safety and health officer; (c) printed copies of any rules made under any provision of this Act which are for t…
(1) There shall be kept in every workplace a register, in the prescribed form, called the general register, and there shall be entered in or attached to that register— (a) the certificate of registration of the workplace; (b) every other certificate issued in respect of the workplace by the Director…
(1) The general register and every other register or record kept in pursuance of this Act shall be preserved and shall be kept available for inspection by any occupational safety and health officer for at least three years, or such other period as may be prescribed for any class or description of re…
(1) The occupier of every workplace, to which any of the provisions of this Act apply, shall, if so required, by an order published in the Gazette, send to the Director, at such intervals and on or before such days as may be specified in the order, a correct return showing, with respect to such day…
(1) No building shall be erected or converted for use as a workplace and no structural alteration and no extension shall be made to any existing workplace except in accordance with plans showing details of the proposed construction, conversion, alteration or extension, approved by the Director. (2)…
(1) Notwithstanding section 26 of the Government Financial Management Act, No. 5 of 2004 (repealed), Parliament shall appropriate moneys necessary for the establishment of a fund to be known as the Occupational Safety and Health Fund. (2) The purpose of the Fund shall be to— (a) secure the developme…
(1) The Cabinet Secretary may, in consultation with the Council, make regulations under this Act to— (a) prohibit exposure to hazard; or (b) prescribe ways to prevent or minimise exposure to hazard. (2) The Cabinet Secretary may, after consultation with the Council, make regulations— (a) which are n…
(1) The Cabinet Secretary may direct a formal investigation to be held into any accident occurring or case of disease contracted or suspected to have been contracted in a workplace, premises, place or location and of its causes and circumstances and the provisions of this section shall have effect w…
(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the Factories and Other Places of Work Act is repealed. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1)— (a) anything done under the provisions of the Factories and Other Places of Work Act (Repealed) or by the Cabinet Secretary under the provisi…