Safety, Health and Welfare At Work Act, 1989
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FOURTH SCHEDULE Regulations | ||
The matters in respect of which regulations may be made under section 28 shall include— | ||
(1) (a) any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed; | ||
(b) any matter referred to in this Schedule as specified or to be specified; | ||
(2) requirements to be imposed on employers as regards the safety, health or welfare of their employees at work as regards— | ||
(a) the design, provision and maintenance of places of work, | ||
(b) the design, provision and maintenance of safe means of access to and egress from places of work, | ||
(c) the design, provision and maintenance of plant and machinery, | ||
(d) the provision, planning, organisation, performance and maintenance of systems of work, | ||
(e) the provision of information, instruction, training and supervision, | ||
(f) the provision, maintenance and use of protective clothing or equipment, | ||
(g) the preparation and revision of plans to be followed in emergencies, and | ||
(h) the obtaining of the services of competent persons so as to ensure the safety or health of persons at work; | ||
(3) requirements to be imposed on employers and self-employed persons as regards the conduct of their undertakings to provide that persons not in the employment of the said employers or self-employed persons are not exposed thereby to risks to their safety or health; | ||
(4) requirements to be imposed on persons to whom section 8 applies in relation to non-domestic places of work as regards such places of work, any article or substance provided for use in such places and as regards access to or egress from such places; | ||
(5) requirements to be imposed on employees as regards their safety, health or welfare at work including requirements as regards the use of any appliance, protective clothing, convenience, equipment or means or thing provided for securing their safety, health or welfare at work; | ||
(6) requirements to be imposed on persons who design, manufacture, import or supply specified articles for use at work as regards— | ||
(a) the design, construction, testing or examination of any article for use at work, | ||
(b) the provision of information on matters relating to the use at work for which any article was designed or tested or to its being dismantled or disposed of in a manner which will be safe and without risk to health of persons at work; | ||
(7) requirements to be imposed on persons who design or manufacture specified articles for use at work as regards the carrying out of research with respect to such articles with a view to the discovery of potential risks or the elimination or minimisation of any risks to the safety or health of persons at work; | ||
(8) requirements to be imposed on persons who erect or install specified articles for use at work as regards the erection or installation of any such article so as to be safe and without risks to health when such article is used in a place of work; | ||
(9) requirements to be imposed on persons who manufacture, import or supply any specified substance as regards— | ||
(a) the use, testing or examination of any such substance, or | ||
(b) the provision of information about any risk to safety or health to which the substance may give rise, about the results of tests on the substance or about its use or disposal in a manner which will be safe and without risk to health of persons at work; | ||
(10) requirements to be imposed on persons who manufacture, or in a case where the manufacture is undertaken outside the State import, any specified substances as regards the carrying out of research with a view to the discovery, elimination or minimisation of risks to safety or health to which the substance may give rise when in use; | ||
(11) requirements to be imposed on persons who design specified places of work as regards the design of such places so as to be safe and without risk to health of persons at work; | ||
(12) requirements to be imposed on persons who construct specified places of work as regards the construction of such places so as to be safe and without risk to health of persons at work; | ||
(13) requirements to be imposed on employers as regards safety statements; | ||
(14) requirements to be imposed as regards the regulation, prohibition or control of the use of any specified article for use at work including the guarding, siting, installing, commissioning, protecting, examining, altering, adjusting, dismantling, testing or inspecting of any such article; | ||
(15) requirements to be imposed as regards the marking of any specified article for use at work or designed for use as a component of such article; | ||
(16) requirements to be imposed as regards the regulation, prohibition or control of the use of any specified substance; | ||
(17) requirements to be imposed as regards the testing, examination, classification or labelling of any specified substance including notification of specified particulars in relation to such substance; | ||
(18) requirements to be imposed as regards the prohibition or the control of importation or supply of any specified article for use at work or of any specified substance; | ||
(19) requirements to be imposed as regards the prohibition or the regulation of the transport of any specified article for use at work or of any specified substance including requirements as regards the construction, testing and marking of containers and means of transport and the packaging and labelling for transport of such articles or substances; | ||
(20) requirements to be imposed as regards the use or design of specified safety signs at places of work; | ||
(21) requirements to be imposed as regards the making of arrangements for health surveillance of persons at work including medical examinations, biological monitoring or special health surveys; | ||
(22) requirements to be imposed as to the registration in a prescribed register of any specified activity or thing; | ||
(23) requirements to be imposed as to the appointment of prescribed persons or classes of persons to do prescribed things in relation to safety, health or welfare at work; | ||
(24) requirements to be imposed as to the regulation or prohibition from prescribed classes of employment of prescribed classes of persons; | ||
(25) requirements to be imposed with respect to any matter affecting the conditions in which persons work, including such matters as the structural conditions and stability of premises, the means of access to and egress from premises, cleanliness, temperature, humidity, lighting, ventilation, overcrowding, noise, vibrations, ionising and other radiations, dust and fumes and exposure to water or other liquids; | ||
(26) requirements to be imposed as to monitoring the atmospheric or other conditions in which persons work; | ||
(27) requirements to be imposed as to specified facilities or arrangements for welfare at work (including supply of water, sanitary conveniences, washing or bathing facilities, ambulance and first-aid arrangements, cloakroom facilities, seating, refreshment facilities, facilities for the making or taking of meals, prohibiting the taking of meals or refreshments in specified circumstances); | ||
(28) requirements to be imposed so as to limit or control— | ||
(a) the emission into a place of work of any specified gas, vapour, smoke, dust, or any other specified substance arising from work activities, | ||
(b) the emission into the working environment of noise, vibration, any ionising or other radiations, | ||
(c) the monitoring of any such emissions in a place of work; | ||
(29) empowering inspectors in specified circumstances to require persons to submit written particulars of measures proposed to be taken to achieve compliance with any of the relevant statutory provisions; | ||
(30) requirements to be imposed with respect to the keeping and preservation of records, including manual or electronic data, books, registers, documents, plans and maps; | ||
(31) requirements to be imposed as regards the safety, health or welfare of persons with respect to the management of animals in or at places of work; | ||
(32) requirements to be imposed as regards any place of work in relation to— | ||
(a) precautions to be taken against dangers to which such place of work or persons therein are or may be exposed by reason of conditions (including natural conditions) existing in the vicinity of that place, | ||
(b) securing that persons in a place of work leave that place of work in specified circumstances where there is a risk to their safety or health; | ||
(33) requirements to be imposed as to the doing of or prohibition of any specified thing where any accident or other occurrence of a specified kind has occurred; | ||
(34) requirements to be imposed with respect to the carrying out of research in connection with the purposes of this Act; | ||
(35) requirements to be imposed in prescribed circumstances with respect to the taking of precautions in connection with the risk of fire; | ||
(36) requirements to be imposed with respect to the notification in a specified manner of specified matters relating to the safety, health or welfare of persons at work, or that of other persons arising out of work activities, (including specified information relating to specified accidents, diseases or dangerous occurrences) to the Authority or an enforcing agency or to an inspector of the Authority or an enforcing agency or to any other specified person; | ||
(37) requirements to be imposed with respect to the safe lifting or handling by persons at work of any load likely to cause injury to a person so lifting or handling it. |