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Thursday, November 1, 1973
NEW INDUSTRIAL SAFETY REGULATIONS NOW IN FORCE
A set of new regulations to ensure greater safety for those
required to work in confined spaces comes into effect today.
The regulations, entitled the Factories and Industrial Under-
takings (Confined Spaces) Regulations 1973, prescribe certain safety
measures to be observed by both proprietors and workers.
The Assistant Commissioner of Labour, Mr. David Lin, said that
working in confined spaces such as chambers, tanke, wells, vats pits,
tunnels, pipes, flues, boilers and pressure receivers was hazardous
because workers were known to have been overcome by dangerous fumes in
such places.
Under the regulations, every confined space in an industrial
undertaking, unless there are other exits, must be provided with a
manhole of adequate size.
Anyone entering a confined space must be authorized by the
proprietor and must wear an approved breathing apparatus. Where practicable,
he should also wear a belt with a rope securely attached.
These requirements do not apply if a confined space has been
certified safe for entry without breathing apparatus by the proprietor
who, before making such a certification, must take steps to test for,
and to prevent, the presence of dangerous fumes.
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