Singapore legislation

Clause 23

Provisions as to unfenced machinery

(1)

In determining for the purposes of sections 18 to 22 of this Act, whether any part of machinery is in such a position or of such construction as to be as safe to every person employed or working on the premises as it would be if securely fenced —

(a)

no account shall be taken of any person carrying out, while the part of machinery is in motion, an examination thereof or any lubrication or adjustment shown by such examination to be immediately necessary, being an examination, lubrication or adjustment which it is necessary to carry out while the part of machinery is in motion; and

(b)

in the case of any part of transmission machinery used in any process in any factory with respect to which the Chief Inspector has declared, by certificate in writing, that he is satisfied that, owing to the continuous nature of such process, the stopping of that part would seriously interfere with the carrying on of the process in such factory, no account shall be taken of any person carrying out in the factory, by such methods and in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the certificate, any such lubrication or any mounting or shipping of belts.

(2)

Subsection (1) of this section shall only apply where —

(a)

the examination, lubrication or other operation as aforesaid is carried out by a male person who —

(i)

has attained the age of twenty years;

(ii)

has been trained for the purposes of the work entailed by, and is acquainted with the dangers of moving machinery arising in connection with, such examination, lubrication or other operation; and

(iii)

is wearing clothing which has no loose ends and which is fastened by means having no exposed loose ends; and

(b)

another person, instructed as to the steps to be taken in case of emergency, is immediately available within sight or hearing of the person carrying out such examination, lubrication or other operation; and

(c)

any ladder in use for the carrying out of such examination, lubrication or other operation is securely fixed or lashed, or is firmly held by a person stationed at the foot of the ladder.

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