Work Place (Minimum Health and Safety Requirements)

L.N. 437 of 2012

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY

ACT

(CAP. 424)

Work Place (Minimum Health and Safety Requirements)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2012.

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 12 of the

Occupational Health and Safety Authority Act, 2000, the Minister

for Health, the Elderly and Community Care, in consultation

with the Occupational Health and Safety Authority, has made the

following regulations

The title of these Regulations is the Work Place

(Minimum Health and Safety Requirements) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2012, and they shall be read and construed as one

with the Work Place (Minimum Health and Safety Requirements)

Regulations, 2002, hereinafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

Sub-regulation 15 of regulation 9 of the principal

regulations shall be deleted and replaced by the following

“9. (15) The employer shall ensure that fire drills

are carried out at least once every 6 months and a record

kept of these drills. Provided that a person competent in

fire safety and recognised as such by the Civil Protection

Directorate, may, at the explicit request of an employer, and

after analysing the prevailing fire risks and the occupancy of

that specific place of work, determine a different frequency

for that employer’s workplace, which in any case shall not be

longer than once every twelve months. The recommendations

made by such a competent person should be documented in

writing and kept by the employer together with the record of

the fire drills. Worker’s Health and Safety Representatives

shall be given the opportunity of being consulted on the

frequency of these fire drills.”

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