Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006 · 2020 Revised Edition · Schedules
Schedule 4 · Workplaces Specified As Factories
Feedback & supportFOURTH SCHEDULESections 5(2) and 64(1)Workplaces Specified As Factories
1. Any premises using an assembly-line manufacturing process in connection with the manufacturing, for the purposes of trade or gain, of any goods or products using mechanical power, not being a restaurant or kitchen.
premises
“premises” includes any place whether enclosed or built on or not, whether situated underground or underwater and, in particular, includes —(a)any building, vehicle, vessel or aircraft;(b)any structure, whether a fixed structure or a movable structure such as a tent; and(c)a part of any premises, including a part of premises of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b);
2. Any premises used for the manufacturing, for the purposes of trade or gain, of fabricated metal products, machinery or equipment.
machinery
“machinery” includes —(a)any oil engine, gas engine, steam engine, and any other machine in which mechanical movement, either linear or rotated or both, takes place;(b)any steam boiler, gas cylinder, air receiver, steam receiver, steam container or refrigerating plant pressure receiver;(c)any appliance for transmission of power by ropes, belts, chains, driving straps or bands or gearing; and(d)any electrical generator or electrical motor,but does not include any machinery used solely for the propulsion of vehicles;
3. Any premises used for the manufacturing, for the purposes of trade or gain, of wood products using mechanical power.
mechanical power
“mechanical power” means any energy derived from steam, water, wind, electricity, compressed air or gas, or the combustion of fuel or explosive, which is used to drive or work any machinery;
4. Any premises used for the production of gas for commercial sale.
5. Any premises used for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products or its intermediates.
6. Any premises where the printing by letter press, offset, lithography, photogravure, rotogravure or other similar process, or the binding of such printed materials, is carried out.
7. Any premises where mechanical power is used in connection with the sorting, packing, handling or storing of articles.
8. Any premises used for the processing or manufacturing of flammable, corrosive or toxic substances, including petroleum, petroleum products, petrochemical or petrochemical products.
9. Any premises where the treatment, coating or electroplating of metal products involving the use of flammable, corrosive or toxic substances is carried out.
10. Any premises where the washing or filling of bottles, containers or vessels that contains or had contained flammable, corrosive or toxic substances is carried out, not being any premises where the filling of fuel into vehicles for their propulsion is carried out as a commercial undertaking.
11. Any premises used for the storage of gas (including liquefied gas) in a container having a storage capacity of not less than 140 cubic metres, not being any premises where the gas is stored for filling of fuel into vehicles for their propulsion as a commercial undertaking.
12. Any premises used for the bulk storage of toxic or flammable liquid (excluding liquefied gas) in a container, not being an underground container, that has a storage capacity of not less than 5,000 cubic metres.
13. Any yard (including any dock, wharf, jetty, quay and the precincts thereof) where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out, including the waters adjacent to any such yard where the construction, reconstruction, repair, refitting, finishing or breaking up of ships is carried out by or on behalf of the occupier of that yard.
occupier
“occupier”, in relation to any premises or part of any premises, means —(a)in the case of a factory where a certificate of registration has to be obtained in relation to the premises pursuant to any regulations — the person who is, or is required to be, the holder of the certificate;(b)in the case of a factory where a notification has to be submitted in relation to the factory pursuant to any regulations — the person who is named in the notification, or is required to submit a notification; and(c)in the case of any other premises — the person who has charge, management or control of those premises either on the person’s own account or as an agent of another person, whether or not the person is also the owner of those premises;
14. Any premises where the construction, reconstruction or repair of locomotives, aircraft, vehicles or other plant for use for transport purposes is carried on as ancillary to a transport undertaking or other industrial or commercial undertaking, not being any premises used for the purpose of housing locomotives, aircraft or vehicles where only cleaning, washing, running repairs or minor adjustments are carried out.
15. Any premises where building operations or any work of engineering construction are carried out.
building
“building” includes —(a)the whole or any part of any house or any other structure, whether used for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise; and(b)any structure, support or foundation connected to the house or structure mentioned in paragraph (a);
16. Any premises where articles are made or prepared incidentally to the carrying on of any building operations or any work of engineering construction, not being premises in which such operations or work are being carried out.
work of engineering construction
“work of engineering construction” means any work specified in the Third Schedule;
17. Any premises where work is carried out for or in connection with the generating of electrical energy for supply by way of trade or for purposes of gain.
18. Any premises where mechanical power is used for the purposes of or in connection with a water supply.
19. Any sewage works where mechanical power is used and any pumping station used in connection therewith.[18/2011]