1981 Ed.]
Quarries (Safety) Regulations
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(3) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.
48. (1) Every supervisor on duty in a quarry to whom a defect is reported under regulation 47(1) or (2) shall forthwith inspect the defect.
(2) Where, on inspecting a reported defect under paragraph (1), the supervisor on duty finds that it is causing or is likely to cause danger to any person, he shall forthwith prohibit every person from operating or driving the mechanical equipment or using the anchorage, safety rope, safety harness or safety helmet, as the case may be, in the quarry until the defect has been remedied.
(3) Any supervisor on duty who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence.
49. (1) Every supervisor on duty in a quarry who inspects a reported defect under regulation 48(1) shall forthwith enter in the Equipment Register a full report of the result of his inspection including details of any prohibition made by him under regulation 48(2).
(2) Any supervisor on duty who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
Supervisor on duty to inspect reported defect in equipment.
LN 308/73
Inspection report.
First Schedule, Form 2.
50. Any person who-
(a) operates or drives any mechanical equipment; or
(b) uses any anchorage, safety rope, safety harness or safety helmet,
in contravention of a prohibition made by a supervisor on duty under regulation 48(2) shall be guilty of an offence:
Provided that with the consent of the supervisor on duty a person may operate or drive the mechanical equipment or use the anchorage, safety rope, safety harness or safety helmet, as the case may be, for the purposes of remedying the defect.
51. (1) No person in a quarry shall go or remain underneath-
(a) any object suspended by a lifting appliance;
(b) the arc of travel of a bucket of any mechanical loading equipment which is in operation; or
(c) a loaded bucket of any mechanical loading equipment.
(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
52. (1) The supervisor on duty in a quarry shall cause all work therein to be carried out so as to avoid as far as may reasonably be possible-
Offence to use defective equipment in contravention of prohibition.
L.N. 208/73.
Offence to go under certain mechanical equipment.
Manner in which work is to be executed.