Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Transmission machinery
(1) Every part of transmission machinery shall be securely fenced. (2) Efficient devices or appliances shall be provided and maint…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Prime movers
(1) Every flywheel directly connected to any prime mover and every moving part of any prime mover, except prime mover referred to…
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Safe use of plant, machinery and equipment
All plant, machinery and equipment whether fixed or mobile for use either at the workplace or as a workplace, shall only be used f…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Duty of occupational safety and health officer as to sanitary defects remediable by local authority
Where an occupational safety and health officer finds any act or default in relation to any drain, sanitary convenience, water sup…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Enforcement of section 52 by local authorities
The provisions of section 52 and of any rules made thereunder shall, in such areas as the Cabinet Secretary may by notice in the G…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Sanitary conveniences
(1) Sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for the persons employed in the workplace shall be provided, maintained and kept…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Drainage of floors
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 remove…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Lighting
(1) An occupier shall ensure that effective provision is made for securing and maintaining sufficient and suitable lighting, wheth…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Ventilation
(1) An occupier shall ensure that effective and suitable provision is made for securing and maintaining, by the circulation of fre…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Overcrowding
(1) An occupier shall ensure that his workplace shall not, while work is carried on, be so overcrowded as to cause risk of injury…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Cleanliness
(1) Every workplace shall be kept in a clean state, and free from effluvia arising from any drain, sanitary convenience or nuisanc…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Appeals
(1) The Cabinet Secretary shall appoint appeal committees for the purpose of considering any appeal made under sections 36, 37 and…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Exceptions to registration
(1) The Cabinet Secretary may, after consultation with the Council, by notice in the Gazette, except some classes of workplaces fr…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Registration of workplaces
(1) Before any person occupies or uses any premises as a workplace, he shall apply for the registration of the premises by sending…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Register of workplaces
The Director shall keep a register of workplaces in which he shall cause to be entered such particulars in relation to every workp…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Safety and health advisor
(1) Every safety and health advisor shall be issued with an annual certificate of authorization by the Director upon payment of th…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Indemnity of occupational safety and health officer
No matter or thing done by an occupational safety and health officer shall if the matter or thing is done bona fide for the execut…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Occupational safety and health officer not to disclose information or source of complaints
(1) An occupational safety and health officer shall not disclose any information obtained by him in the course of his duties and t…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Provisions on prohibition notices and improvement notices
(1) In this section “a notice” means an improvement notice or prohibition notice. (2) A notice may but need not, include direction…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Appeal against improvement or prohibition notice
(1) In this section “notice” means an improvement notice or a prohibition notice. (2) A person to whom an improvement or a prohibi…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Prohibition notices
(1) This section applies to any activities which are being or are about to be carried on by or under the control of any person, be…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Improvement notices
If an occupational safety and health officer is of the opinion that a person— (a) is contravening any of the provisions of this Ac…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Power to deal with cause of imminent danger
(1) Where, in the case of any article or substance found by him in any premises which he has power to enter, an occupational safet…
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Occupational Safety and Health Act CAP 236A▤
Power to take samples
(1) An occupational safety and health officer may at any time, after informing the occupier or, if the occupier is not readily ava…
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