FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (BLASTING BY ABRASIVES) SPECIAL REGULATIONS

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (BLASTING BY ABRASIVES) SPECIAL REGULATIONS

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS
(BLASTING BY ABRASIVES) SPECIAL
REGULATIONS

(Cap. 59, section 7(2) and (5))

[28 February 1969.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial
Undertakings (Blasting by Abrasives) Special Regulations.

2. In these regulations -blasting process' means the cleaning,
smoothing, roughening or removing of part of the surface of any
substance or thing including granite, stone or brick by the use as an
abrasive of a jet of sand, metal shot or grit or other material propelled by
a blast of compressed air or steam or water or by a wheel.

3. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), no person shall, in any
industrial undertaking, use sand or other material containing free silica
as an abrasive in any blasting process.

(2) If the Commissioner for Labour, or any officer authorized in
writing by him, is satisfied that in any industrial undertaking the use of
sand or any other material containing free silica as an abrasive in a
blasting process (other than a process incidental or supplemental to the
making of metal castings) is necessary in any particular case, he may by
certificate in writing (which he may in his discretion revoke at any time)
permit the use of the sand or other material containing free silica in that
blasting process subject to the following conditions

(a)that there shall be provided and maintained for the use of
every person who is employed in that blasting process a
protective helmet of a type approved in writing by the
Commissioner or by any officer authorized in writing by the
Commissioner for Labour designed to enclose the head, face
and neck of such person and every such person shall wear the
helmet provided for his use whilst he is employed in that
blasting process; and

(b)that every person employed in that blasting process shall,
whilst so employed be supplied with clean fresh air at a rate of
not less that 6 cubic feet per minute from a source removed from that
blasting process,

and such other conditions as the Commissioner for Labour, or any
officer authorized in writing by him, may in his discretion specify in the
certificate.





(3) Any person who uses sand or any other material contain-
ing free silica as an abrasive in a blasting process in contravention of
paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

(4) A person who is guilty of an offence under paragraph (3)
shall-

(a)if he is a proprietor, be liable on conviction to a fine of
520,000; and

(b)if he is a person other than a proprietor, be liable on
conviction to a fine of 510,000.
L.N. 35/69. L.N. 158/78. L.N. 315/81. Citation. Interpretation. Restriction on use of sand or free silica as an abrasive in a blasting process. L.N. 158/78. L.N. 315/81.

L.N. 35/69. L.N. 158/78. L.N. 315/81. Citation. Interpretation. Restriction on use of sand or free silica as an abrasive in a blasting process. L.N. 158/78. L.N. 315/81.

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