Workplace Safety and Health (Shipbuilding and Ship-Repairing) Regulations 2008

These Regulations may be cited as the Workplace Safety and Health (Shipbuilding and Ship-Repairing) Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2008.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —“competent person” means a person who has sufficient experience and training to perform the work required to be carried out;“designated person” means a competent person appointed in writing by —

an occupier of a shipyard;

an employer of persons carrying out work in a shipyard or on board a ship in a harbour; or

a principal who gives direction to persons on the work carried out by those persons in a shipyard or on board a ship in a harbour,to perform any task or duty prescribed under these Regulations;“employee’s lift” means a powered car operating in guides and used primarily to carry persons in a substantially vertical direction;“fire watchman” means a fire watchman appointed under regulation 35(1);“hazardous work” means any work that is likely to endanger the life of any person in a shipyard or on board a ship in a harbour and includes any type of work which is specified by the Commissioner in writing as hazardous work;“hot-work” means riveting, welding, flame cutting or burning and includes any other work involving the use or generation of heat or the production of sparks;“responsible person”, in relation to any work carried out in a shipyard or on board a ship in a harbour, means —

in the case of a shipyard, the occupier of the shipyard; and

in the case of a ship in a harbour —

the employer of any person who carries out the work; or

the principal under whose direction any person carries out the work;“safety assessor” means a safety assessor appointed under regulation 18(1)(ii) or 27(1)(ii);“shipyard” includes any dry or wet dock, wharf, jetty and quay, and the precincts thereof;“ship repair manager” means a ship repair manager appointed under regulation 7.

These Regulations shall apply to any work carried out in a shipyard or on board a ship in a harbour in connection with —

the construction, re-construction, repair, refitting, fitting, painting, finishing, furnishing or breaking up of a ship;

the scaling, scurfing or cleaning of boilers (including combustion chambers and smoke boxes) in a ship;

the cleaning of any tank, bilges or holds in a ship; and

the survey or inspection of a ship or its contents (where such survey or inspection is not carried out by the crew of the ship).