Occupational Safety and Health Regulations 2009
Download PDF| Year | 2009 |
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| Category | Consolidated |
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Table of Contents
- 1. Citation
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Units of measurement
- 4. Incorporation of standards
- 5. Obligation to comply with the Regulations
- 6. Records, reports and other documents
- 7. Occupational safety and health policy and organization
- 8. Record of training and instruction
- 9. Definitions
- 10. Members
- 11. Chairpersons
- 12. Vacancy
- 13. Quorum
- 14. Meetings of committee
- 15. Records and minutes
- 16. Meetings between representative and employer
- 17. Information
- 18. Time off for committee members and representatives
- 19. Additional duties of committees and representatives
- 20. Inspections
- 21. Investigation of accidents and dangerous occurrences
- 22. Definitions
- 23. Notification of accident or dangerous occurrence within 24 hours
- 24. Investigation of accident or dangerous occurrence
- 25. Report by employer
- 26. Report by medical practitioner
- 27. Record of minor injuries
- 28. Notification of hazards by employee
- 29. Records and reports to be kept for 10 years
- 30. Annual report
- 31. Standards
- 32. Housekeeping
- 33. Doors
- 34. Ladders and stairways
- 35. Wall and floor openings
- 36. Docks, ramps and dock plates
- 37. Open top enclosures
- 38. Toe boards or panels
- 39. Definitions
- 40. Standards
- 41. Use and operation
- 42. Inspection and testing
- 43. Repair and maintenance
- 44. Definitions
- 45. Entry prohibited
- 46. Hazard assessment
- 47. Inspection and tests before entry
- 48. Entry without verification report
- 49. Entry permit system
- 50. Explosive and flammable atmospheres
- 51. Ventilation equipment
- 52. Information and training
- 53. Definitions
- 54. General
- 55. Disconnection and locking out of power supply
- 56. Work to be performed by qualified person
- 57. Warning signs – energized equipment
- 58. Electrical switches and control devices
- 59. Clearance around electrical equipment
- 60. Portable electrical equipment
- 61. Locking devices
- 62. Instruction and training
- 63. Safety watcher
- 64. Poles and elevated structures
- 65. Safety grounding
- 66. Common grounding network
- 67. Safety ground to have sufficient current
- 68. Requirements for attachment or disconnection of safety ground
- 69. Low voltage equipment
- 70. Unguarded low voltage equipment
- 71. Precautions for performing work on low voltage equipment
- 72. Precautions for performing work on high voltage equipment
- 73. Warning signs
- 74. Isolation and lockout of high voltage power systems
- 75. Guarantee of isolation
- 76. Isolation of power system
- 77. Confirmation of isolation
- 78. Working near high voltage equipment
- 79. Where more than one place of employment in a building
- 80. Fire protection equipment
- 81. Means of escape in event of fire or emergency
- 82. Additional requirements in certain places of employment
- 83. Emergency evacuation plan
- 84. Emergency procedures
- 85. Instruction of employees
- 86. Notices
- 87. Record of evacuations
- 88. Appointment of emergency officers and monitors
- 89. Training of emergency officers and monitors
- 90. Fire safety inspection
- 91. Drills and meetings of emergency officers and monitors
- 92. Fire hazard areas - signs
- 93. First aid attendant
- 94. First aid station
- 95. First aid kit
- 96. Emergency showers or eyewashes
- 97. Definitions
- 98. Assessment of levels of sound
- 99. Sound exposure limits
- 100. Audiometric tests
- 101. Noise warning signs
- 102. Information and instruction - hearing conservation
- 103. Lighting
- 104. Measurement of average levels of lighting
- 105. Levels of lighting
- 106. Ventilation
- 107. Ventilation control of hazardous substances
- 108. Exhaust and ventilation systems
- 109. Indoor air quality
- 110. Overcrowding
- 111. Workstations
- 112. Vibration hazards
- 113. Protection against unsafe levels of vibration
- 114. Instruction and training - exposure to vibration
- 115. Information and warning regarding vibration hazards
- 116. Video display terminals
- 117. Musculoskeletal injury generally
- 118. Definition
- 119. Personal service rooms
- 120. Cleanliness
- 121. Contamination control
- 122. Storage of equipment
- 123. Walls and partitions
- 124. Vermin control
- 125. Temperature control
- 126. Ventilation
- 127. Toilet rooms
- 128. Doors and door markings
- 129. Design requirements for toilet rooms
- 130. Toilet paper
- 131. Sanitary napkins
- 132. Wash basins
- 133. Soap and cleansing agents
- 134. Waste disposal
- 135. Portable containers for solid or liquid waste
- 136. Potable water
- 137. Water containers
- 138. Showers and shower rooms
- 139. Changing room
- 140. Clothing storage
- 141. Lunch rooms
- 142. Definitions
- 143. Record of hazardous substances
- 144. Hazard identification and assessment
- 145. Labelling of containers
- 146. Material safety data sheets
- 147. Information and training
- 148. Transfer of hazardous substance by assembly of pipes
- 149. Use, handling, storage and transport
- 150. Warning signs and detection systems
- 151. Airborne chemical agents – exposure levels
- 152. Airborne chemical agents – ignition hazards
- 153. Airborne chemical agents – ventilation
- 154. Hazardous waste
- 155. Laboratory labels
- 156. Radiation emitting devices
- 157. Applicable safety codes
- 158. Devices to be reported
- 159. General
- 160. Instruction and training
- 161. Hazard information and precautions
- 162. Inspection and maintenance records
- 163. Defective machines and tools
- 164. Operating manuals and instructions
- 165. Machine guards
- 166. Chain saws
- 167. Grinding machines
- 168. Pneumatic nailing and stapling tools
- 169. Hand-held circular saws
- 170. Kickback prevention - hand-fed circular saw
- 171. Hand-fed woodworking machines
- 172. Use of machine guard impracticable
- 173. Radial arm saw travel limits
- 174. Jointers
- 175. Sanding machines
- 176. Tenoning machines
- 177. Woodworking cutting heads
- 178. Band saws
- 179. Automotive lifts
- 180. Definitions
- 181. General
- 182. Assembling and dismantling of equipment
- 183. Inspection, testing and maintenance
- 184. Removal of equipment from use
- 185. Protection from falling objects
- 186. Rollover protection
- 187. Fuel containers mounted on materials handling equipment
- 188. Protection from elements
- 189. Vibration
- 190. Controls
- 191. Fire extinguishers
- 192. Means of entering and exiting
- 193. Warning lights
- 194. Braking, steering and control systems
- 195. Audible warning devices
- 196. Seat belts
- 197. Rear view mirror
- 198. Electrically-powered equipment
- 199. Automatic and remote control of equipment
- 200. Conveyers
- 201. Operator training
- 202. Operator qualifications
- 203. Requirement for signaller
- 204. Code of signals
- 205. Signalling devices
- 206. Repairs
- 207. Transporting and positioning of employees
- 208. Loading and unloading
- 209. Maintenance and repair
- 210. Positioning the load
- 211. Tools
- 212. Housekeeping
- 213. Parking
- 214. Materials handling area
- 215. Hazard areas
- 216. Rear dumping
- 217. Fuelling
- 218. Safe working loads
- 219. Marking of safe working loads for lifting equipment
- 220. Marking of lifting beams and frames
- 221. Travelling or slewing of lifting equipment
- 222. Control of suspended load
- 223. Carrying of persons by means of lifting equipment
- 224. Coupled lifting equipment
- 225. Aisles and corridors
- 226. Overhead and side clearances
- 227. Vehicles
- 228. Manual handling of materials hazardous to safety and health
- 229. Limits for manual handling
- 230. Instruction on manual handling
- 231. Storage of materials
- 232. Definition
- 233. General
- 234. Use of protective clothing and equipment
- 235. Maintenance of protective clothing and equipment
- 236. Head protection
- 237. Foot protection
- 238. Eye and face protectors
- 239. X-ray protection
- 240. Respiratory protection devices
- 241. Skin protection
- 242. Hand protection
- 243. Fall protection system
- 244. Obligation to use fall protection system
- 245. Instruction in use of fall protection system
- 246. Full body harness for fall arrest
- 247. Fall arrest system
- 248. Safety belts for travel restraint
- 249. Installation or removal of fall protection system
- 250. Temporary removal of guard-rails
- 251. Safety nets
- 252. Protection against drowning
- 253. Water rescue equipment and procedures
- 254. Transport by water
- 255. Protection against moving vehicles
- 256. Protection against hazardous substances
- 257. Working in the rain
- 258. Defective protective clothing and equipment
- 259. Training
- 260. Loose clothing and other items
- 261. Records
- 262. Definitions
- 263. General duties
- 264. Notice of commencement of construction work
- 265. Notice at construction site
- 266. Co-ordination where more than one contractor
- 267. Definitions
- 268. General
- 269. Emergency escape
- 270. Excavation support system
- 271. Precautions regarding utility services
- 272. Sampling of soil
- 273. Fencing of excavations
- 274. Definitions
- 275. Construction and maintenance
- 276. Means of escape in case of flooding
- 277. Supervision of work and inspection of material
- 278. Inspection
- 279. Definition
- 280. General
- 281. Inspection and testing
- 282. Safety of hoistways and platforms
- 283. Operation
- 284. Winches, drums and pulleys
- 285. Loads to be safely secured
- 286. Passenger hoists
- 287. Safe working load and marking of hoists
- 288. Definition
- 289. Foundation, shoring and bracing for tower crane
- 290. Inspection before crane erected
- 291. Other inspections
- 292. Switches and devices
- 293. Movement of boom
- 294. Operator’s cabin
- 295. Load block of unattended crane
- 296. Track bed of rail-mounted crane
- 297. Electrical safety
- 298. Protection from falling material
- 299. Precautions against collapse
- 300. General
- 301. When they are to be used
- 302. Erection or alteration
- 303. Inspection
- 304. Load on work platform
- 305. Width of work platform
- 306. Guard-rails and toe-boards
- 307. General
- 308. Scaffold mounted on castors or wheels
- 309. Scaffold above a certain height
- 310. Scaffold platform
- 311. Cubes of masonry
- 312. Partly erected or dismantled scaffolds
- 313. Scaffolds used by employees of different contractor
- 314. Maximum load for scaffolds
- 315. Slung scaffolds
- 316. Moving persons on suspended scaffolds
- 317. Trestle scaffolds
- 318. General
- 319. Design and manufacture
- 320. Maintenance and inspection
- 321. Instruction and training
- 322. Use
- 323. Boatswain’s chairs, skips, etc (not power operated)
- 324. General
- 325. Wooden ladder
- 326. Double-width wooden ladder
- 327. Step-ladder
- 328. Access ladder
- 329. General
- 330. Safety features
- 331. Storage
- 332. Precautions
- 333. Supervision and co-ordination of demolition
- 334. Preservation of structural integrity
- 335. Precautions prior to demolition
- 336. Identification of hazardous substances
- 337. Precautions during demolition
- 338. Protection from falling material
- 339. Accumulation of materials
- 340. Salvage operations
- 341. Precautions after demolition
- 342. Access to building being demolished
- 343. Sequence for demolition
- 344. Traffic control devices
- 345. Use of signs by employee to direct traffic
- 346. Wearing of fluorescent garment
- 347. Removal of material
- 348. Storage of material
- 349. Gas cylinders
- 350. Flammable liquid or gas
- 351. Signs
- 352. Ventilation
- 353. Operation of internal combustion engine
- 354. Repair of pressurized containers
- 355. Removal of protruding objects
- 356. Revocation
- 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health Regulations
- 2. In these Regulations—
| Case Name | Citation | Date | Court |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenn O. Chase v Fairmont Hotels (Bermuda) Limited Fairmont Management Limited Fairmont Resources Limited Fairmont Services Limited Fairmont Limited West End Properties Ltd. | [2018] SC (Bda) 55 Civ (28 June 2018) | 2018-06-28 | Supreme Court |
| Beverly Sharlytta Allen v Gold Coast Company Limited | [2015] SC (Bda) 79 Civ (16 November 2015) | 2015-11-16 | Supreme Court |