Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Repeal and savings
(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the Factories and Other Places of Work Act is repealed. (2) Notwithstanding the p…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Power to direct formal investigation of accidents and cases of disease
(1) The Cabinet Secretary may direct a formal investigation to be held into any accident occurring or case of disease contracted o…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Safety and health regulations
(1) The Cabinet Secretary may, in consultation with the Council, make regulations under this Act to— (a) prohibit exposure to haza…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Occupational Safety and Health Fund
(1) Notwithstanding section 26 of the Government Financial Management Act, No. 5 of 2004 (repealed), Parliament shall appropriate…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Approval of plans of workplace premises
(1) No building shall be erected or converted for use as a workplace and no structural alteration and no extension shall be made t…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Return of persons employed
(1) The occupier of every workplace, to which any of the provisions of this Act apply, shall, if so required, by an order publishe…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Preservation of registers and records
(1) The general register and every other register or record kept in pursuance of this Act shall be preserved and shall be kept ava…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
General register
(1) There shall be kept in every workplace a register, in the prescribed form, called the general register, and there shall be ent…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Posting of abstract of Act, rules and notices
(1) There shall be kept posted in a prominent position in every workplace— (a) the prescribed abstract of this Act; (b) a notice o…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Power to apportion expenses
Where in any premises the whole or any part of which has been let as a workplace, any structural or other alterations are required…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Power to modify agreements
If by reason of an agreement between the owner and the occupier of premises, the whole or any part of which has been let as a work…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Service of documents
(1) Any document, including any summons or order, required or authorized to be served under this Act may be served— (a) on any per…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Special provisions as to evidence
(1) If a person is found in a workplace at any time at which work is going on or the machinery is in motion, except during the int…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Prosecution of offences
(1) All offences under this Act shall be prosecuted, and all fines under this Act shall be recovered in a magistrate’s court. (2)…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Proceedings against persons other than occupiers or owners
Where, under this Act, any person is substituted for the occupier or owner of a workplace with respect to any provisions of this A…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Exemption of occupier or owner on conviction of actual offender
(1) Where the occupier or owner of a workplace is charged with an offence under this Act, he shall be entitled, upon a charge duly…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Penalty on persons committing offence for which occupier is liable
Where an act or default for which an occupier or owner of a workplace is liable under this Act is in fact the act or default of an…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Forgery, false declaration, etc.
A person who— (a) forges or counterfeits any certificate required by, under or for the purposes of this Act; (b) gives or signs an…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Penalty in case of death or injury
If any person is killed, or dies, suffers any bodily injury, in consequence of the occupier or owner of a workplace having contrav…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Court may order cause of contravention to be remedied
(1) Where the occupier or owner of workplace is convicted of an offence under this Act, the court may, in addition to or instead o…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
General penalty
(1) Any person who commits an offence under this Act for which no express penalty is provided shall on conviction be liable to a f…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Offences
(1) In the event of any contravention in connexion with or in relation to a workplace of the provisions of this Act, the occupier,…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Platforms erected over water
(1) Every occupier or owner of a vessel or platform erected over water or in water shall ensure that adequate measures have been t…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Premises in which hoists or lifts are used
(1) The provisions of this Act shall apply to any premises (not being premises forming part of a workplace) in which a hoist or a…
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