Regulations, 2015

L.N. 198 of 2015

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 424)

Protection of the Health and Safety of Workers from the Risks

related to Chemical Agents at Work (Amendment)

Regulations, 2015

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 12 of the

Occupational Health and Safety Authority Act, the Minister for

Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs and Civil Liberties, after

consultation with the Occupational Health and Safety Authority, has

made the following regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Protection of Citation and

the Health and Safety of Workers from the Risks related to Chemical Scope.

Agents at Work (Amendment) Regulations, 2015, and these

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Protection of

the Health and Safety of Workers from the Risks related to Chemical

Agents at Work Regulations hereinafter referred to as "the principal S.L. 424.24

regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is the implementation of

Directive 2014/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council

amending Council Directive 94/33/EC on the protection of the health

and safety of workers from the risks related to chemical agents at

work – the Chemical Agents Directive (fourteenth individual

Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/

EEC).

The definition "hazardous chemical agent" in regulation 2 Amends

regulation 2 of

of the principal regulations shall be amended as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

paragraph (a) thereof shall be substituted by the

following

"(a) any chemical agent which meets the criteria

for classification as hazardous within any physical and/or

health hazard classes laid down in Regulation (EC) No

1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council,

whether or not that chemical agent is classified under that

Regulation;"; and

(b)

paragraph (b) thereof shall be deleted; and

(c)

paragraph (c) thereof shall be renumbered as

paragraph (b) and substituted by the following

"(b) any chemical agent which, whilst not

meeting the criteria for classification as hazardous in

accordance with paragraph (a) may, because of its physic-

chemical, chemical or toxicological properties and the way

it is used or is present in the workplace, present a risk to

the safety and health of workers, including any chemical

agent that is assigned on occupational exposure limit value

under regulation 3;".

Paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 4 of the

principal regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(b)

information on safety and health shall be provided

by the supplier (e.g. the relevant safety data sheet in accordance

with Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament

and of the Council, including the relevant Material Safety Data

Sheet, a copy of which shall be kept at the place of work and

made available to the workers and, or the Workers’ Health and

Safety Representatives, and to the persons designated by the

employer in terms of regulation 9 of the General Provisions for

Health and Safety at Work Places Regulations.".

Sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1)

of regulation 8 of the principal regulations shall be substituted by the

following

"(iv) access to any safety data sheet provided by the

supplier in accordance with Article 31 of Regulation (EC) No

1907/2006.".

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