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Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations
[1985 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
Duties of persons employed.
71/89513
Protection from sound.
L.N. 149/82.
Third Schedule.
require the person by whom the analysis was made to be called as a witness.
(4) No person shall, except in so far as is necessary for the purposes of a prosecution for an offence under the Ordinance, publish or disclose to any person the results of an analysis made under this regulation.
21. (1) No person employed in an industrial undertaking shall wilfully interfere with or misuse any means, appliance, convenience or other thing provided in pursuance of the Ordinance for securing the health, safety or welfare of the persons employed in the industrial undertaking, and where any means or appliance securing health or safety is provided for the use of any such person under the Ordinance, he shall use the means or appliance.
(2) No person employed in an industrial undertaking shall wilfully and without reasonable cause do anything likely to endanger himself or others.
21A. (1) In any industrial undertaking or part thereof where on any day any person employed therein is likely to be exposed continuously for 8 hours to a sound level of 90 dB(A) or is likely to be subject to an equivalent or greater exposure to sound the proprietor of that industrial undertaking shall-
(a) maintain any machinery and equipment used therein properly in order to minimize the emanation of sound from them;
(b) provide suitable ear protectors and make them readily available for the use of every person employed therein; and
(c) warn every person employed therein, by posting a notice in conspicuous places in such place of employment, of the danger to health of a failure to make use of ear protectors.
(2) Every person for whom ear protectors are provided under paragraph (1)(b) shall use them during the whole period when he is likely to be exposed continuously for 8 hours to a sound level of 90 dB(A) or is likely to be subject to an equivalent or greater exposure to sound.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation, the level of exposure which is equivalent to continuous exposure for 8 hours to a sound level of 90 dB(A) shall be determined by the table set out in the Third Schedule.
L.N. 157/78.
50 of 1985, s. 9.
Application of this Part.
50 of 1985, s. 9.
PART IV
NOTIFIABLE WORKPLACES
Application
22. This Part (except regulation 23) shall apply to every notifiable workplace that is an industrial undertaking.
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