Workplace Safety and Health (Workplace Safety and Health Committees) Regulations 2008

These Regulations may be cited as the Workplace Safety and Health (Workplace Safety and Health Committees) Regulations 2008 and shall come into operation on 1st September 2008.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —“chairman” means the chairman of a workplace safety and health committee appointed under regulation 4(2)(b);“member” means a member of a workplace safety and health committee and includes a chairman thereof;“secretary” means the secretary of a workplace safety and health committee appointed under regulation 5(2) or deemed to be appointed under regulation 5(1);“workplace safety and health committee”, in relation to a factory, means the workplace safety and health committee appointed under regulation 4(2)(a) in respect of the factory.

“chairman” means the chairman of a workplace safety and health committee appointed under regulation 4(2)(b);

“member” means a member of a workplace safety and health committee and includes a chairman thereof;

“secretary” means the secretary of a workplace safety and health committee appointed under regulation 5(2) or deemed to be appointed under regulation 5(1);

“workplace safety and health committee”, in relation to a factory, means the workplace safety and health committee appointed under regulation 4(2)(a) in respect of the factory.

These Regulations shall apply in relation to every factory in which 50 or more persons are ordinarily at work, excluding persons who carry out any work which is of a temporary nature and is not ordinarily carried out in the factory.