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[Subsidiary]

Requirements relating to use

of respiratory protective equipment.

Accommodation for protective

clothing, etc.

Offence in respect of the use of equipment or provision of facilities.

CAP. 59] Factories and Industrial Undertakings

(Asbestos) Special Regulations

[1986 Ed.

13. No proprietor of an industrial undertaking who uses an asbestos process shall-

(a) provide respiratory protective equipment for the use of any person which has been used by another person, unless it has first been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected; or (b) employ any person to perform any work for which respiratory protective equipment is required to be provided unless that person has been fully instructed in the proper use of that equipment.

14. Where a proprietor of an industrial undertaking who uses an asbestos process provides respiratory protective equipment or protective clothing as required by these regulations he shall

(a) provide and maintain suitable accommodation, in a posi- tion conveniently accessible to the place where the asbestos process is used-

(i) for the use of persons putting on or taking off that respiratory protective equipment or protective clothing; and

(ii) for the storage of the equipment and clothing when it is not in use;

(b) ensure that respiratory protective equipment and protec- tive clothing is put on or taken off only in the accommoda- tion provided under paragraph (a)(i);

(c) ensure that, except when it is necessary for it to be removed for cleaning or replacement, respiratory protective equip- ment and protective clothing provided by him is, when not being used, kept in the accommodation provided under paragraph (a)(ii);

(d) ensure that protective clothing provided for the use of any

person is not used by any other person;

(e) provide and maintain suitable facilities for the cleaning of

protective clothing; and

(ƒ) ensure that all protective clothing provided under these regulations is cleaned after each occasion when it is used, in facilities provided under paragraph (e).

15. (1) A proprietor of an industrial undertaking who uses an asbestos process and fails to comply with any of the provisions of regulation 13 or 14 commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $20,000.

(2) It shall be a defence to a charge under this regulation alleging a failure to comply with paragraph (d) of regulation 14 to prove that it was impracticable to comply with that paragraph.