FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (PROTECTION OF EYES) REGULATIONS

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (PROTECTION OF EYES) REGULATIONS

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS
PROTECTION OF EYES) REGULATIONS

(Cap. 59, section 7)

[Part I: 20th May, 1977.

Part II: 7th October, 1977.]

PART 1

PRELIMINARY

1. These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial
Undertakings (Protection of Eyes) Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

approved eye protectors', 'approved shield- and 'approved fixed
shield' mean respectively eye protectors, a shield and a fixed
shield made in conformity with specifications for the time being
declared under regulation 4 to be approved specifications for the
purposes of these regulations;

eye protectors' means any of the following (being equipment made to
be worn by a person), that is to say, goggles, visors, spectacles
and face screens;

'fixed shield' means a screen which is free-standing or which is, or is
made to be, attached to machinery, plant or other equipment or to a
building or structure;

shield' means a helmet or hand shield, being equipment made to be
worn or held by a person;

specified process' means any process specified in the Schedule to
these regulations.

3. (1) These regulations shall apply to any industrial undertaking
where any specified process is carried on.

(2) The Commissioner may, by certificate under his hand, exempt
any industrial undertaking to which these regulations apply from all or
any of the requirements of these regulations if he is satisfied that, in the
case of that undertaking, the requirements in respect of which the
exemption is granted are not necessary for the protection of persons
employed in that undertaking or are not

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reasonably practicable; and any exemption granted under this
paragraph shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the
Commissioner may specify therein, and may be revoked at any time.

4. (1) Eye protectors, shields or fixed shields provided under these
regulations for the use of persons in any industrial undertaking to
which these regulations apply shall be made in conformity with





such specifications as the Commissioner may, by notice in the Gazette,
declare to be approved specifications for the purposes of these
regulations.

(2) The Commissioner may, by notice in the Gazette, revoke, replace
or amend any notice under paragraph (1) or any specification therein.

PART II

GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR PROTECTION OF
EYEs

5. The proprietor of any industrial undertaking to which these
regulations apply shall provide for the use of every person employed in
any specified process carried on in that undertaking

(a) approved eye protectors;

(b) an approved shield; or

(c) an approved fixed shield,

as the case may require for the protection of his eyes, having regard to
the specified process in which that person is employed and the risk of
injury to his eyes from the carrying on of that process.

6. Where any specified process is being carried on in an industrial
undertaking and any person other than those employed in that process
is employed in a place where there is a reasonably foreseeable risk of
injury to his eyes from the carrying on of the process, the proprietor of
the industrial undertaking shall provide for the use of that person

(a) approved eye protectors;

(b) an approved shield; or

(c) an approved fixed shield,

as the case may require for the protection of his eyes, having regard to
the specified process being so carried on and the risk of injury to his
eyes from the carrying on of that process.

7. The proprietor of an industrial undertaking to which these
regulations apply shall

(a)maintain in good condition all eye protectors, shields and fixed
shields provided by him for use under these regulations and
shall

(i) so far as may be reasonably necessary for that purpose,
provide proper storage for them;

(ii) if it is necessary that they should be transparent, keep
them clean; and





(b) take reasonable steps to ensure that every person for
whose use he so provides eye protectors or a shield or a fixed
shield, as the case may be, makes full and proper use of the
same.

8. Where the proprietor of an industrial undertaking to which these
regulations apply provides eye protectors or a shield or a fixed shield, as
the case may be, for the use of any person under these regulations, that
person shall

(a) make full and proper use thereof; and

(b)report forthwith to the proprietor the loss or destruction
thereof or any damage thereto or defect therein.

9. (1) Any proprietor of an industrial undertaking to which these
regulations apply who contravenes any of the provisions of regulation
5, 6 or 7 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of
$5,000

(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of

regulation 8 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to
a fine of $2,000

SCHEDULE [r. 2.]

SPECIFIED PROCESSES

1.Dry grinding of metals or articles of metal applied by hand to a revolving
wheel, band or disc driven by mechanical power.

2.Turning (external or internal) of non-ferrous metals, or of cast iron, or of
articles of such metals or such iron, where the work is done dry, other than
precision turning where the use of eye protectors or a screen would seriously
interfere with the work, or turning by means of hand tools.

3.Welding or cutting of metals by means of an electrical, oxy-acetylene or similar
process.

4. Truing or dressing of an abrasive wheel.

5.Any work carried out with a hand-held cartridge-operated tool, including the
operation of loading and unloading live cartridges into such a tool, and the
handling of such a tool for the purpose of maintenance, repair or examination
when the tool is loaded with a live cartridge.

6.The handling in open vessels or manipulation of acids, alkalis, dangerous
corrosive materials, whether liquid or solid, and other substances which are
similarly injurous to the eyes.

7. The use of compressed air for removing swarf, dust, dirt or other particles.

8.Any process involving the use of an instrument which produces light
amplication by the stimulated emission of radiation.

9. The production of metal castings at pressure die casting machines.

10.Working at a spout of, or attending to, a cupola or furnace where there is a
reasonably foreseeable risk of injury to the eyes from molten metal.

11. Pouring or skimming molten metal.





12.Work in the manufacture of glass and in the processing of glass and the
handling of culleet where in any of the foregoing cases there is a reasonably
foreseeable risk of injury to the eyes of any person engaged in the work from
particles or fragments thrown off.

13. Inspection of glass bottles which contain aerated liquids.

14.The following processes when carried on by means of hand tools or other
portable tools

(a) Fettling of metal castings involving the removal of metal.

(b)Cutting out or cutting off (not including drilling or punching back) of cold
rivets or bolts from boilers or other plant or from ships.

(c) Chipping or scaling or scurfing of boilers or ships' plates.

(d)Breaking, cutting, dressing, carving or drilling of concrete, plaster, slag or
stone (whether natural or artificial).
L.N. 110/77. Citation. Interpretation. Schedule. Application and exemption. Specifications. Protection of persons employed in specified processes. Protection of persons at risk from but not employed in a specified process. Duties of proprietor in respect of protective equipment. Duties of employees in respect of protective equipment. Offences.

L.N. 110/77. Citation. Interpretation. Schedule. Application and exemption. Specifications. Protection of persons employed in specified processes. Protection of persons at risk from but not employed in a specified process. Duties of proprietor in respect of protective equipment. Duties of employees in respect of protective equipment. Offences.

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