Singapore legislation
Regulation 15
of Workplace Safety and Health (General Provisions) Regulations
Regulation 15
Construction and maintenance of fencing or other safeguards
Subregulation 1
It shall be the duty of the occupier of a workplace to ensure that all fencing or other safeguards required to be provided for the purposes of regulations 11 and 12 are —
of substantial construction;
properly maintained; and
kept in position and properly adjusted to render the machinery safe for any person while the parts required to be fenced or safeguarded are in motion or in use.
Subregulation 2
Paragraph (1)(c) shall not apply where —
the parts mentioned in that paragraph are necessarily exposed in motion for examination and for any lubrication or adjustment shown by such examination to be immediately necessary; and
all the conditions specified in regulation 13(2) are complied with.