Regulations, 2015

L.N. 199 of 2015

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 424)

Work Place (Provisions of Health and, or Safety Signs (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 Work Place of

Health and, or Safety Signs (Amendment) Regulations, 2015, and

they shall be read and construed as one with the Work Place of Health

and, or Safety Signs Regulations, herein referred to as "the principal

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 92/58/EEC on the minimum

requirements for the provisions of safety and/or health signs at work

(ninth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of

Directive 89/301/EEC94/33/EC).

Paragraph 12 of Schedule I to the principal regulations

shall be substituted by the following

"12.0 Areas, rooms or enclosures used for storage of

significant quantities of dangerous substances or mixtures must

be indicated by a suitable warning sign taken from paragraph

2 of Schedule II to these regulations, or marked as provided in

section I of Schedule III to these regulations unless the labelling

of the individual packages or containers is adequate for the

purpose.

If there is no equivalent warning sign in paragraph

3.2 of Schedule II to these regulations to warn about hazardous

chemical substances or mixtures, the relevant hazard pictogram,

as laid down in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of

the European Parliament and of the Council.".

3. Schedule II to the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a)

the warning sign found in paragraph 3.2 thereof

"Harmful or irritant material" shall be deleted; and

(b)

Linked to the warning sign "General danger" there

shall be added the following footnote

"*This warning sign shall not be used to warn

about hazardous chemical substances or mixtures, except

for cases when the warning sign is used in accordance with

the second point of paragraph 5 of Schedule III to indicate

the stores of hazardous substances or mixtures.".

Schedule III to the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

Schedule III to

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

paragraph 1 thereof shall be substituted by the

following

"1 Containers used at work for chemical

substances or mixtures classified as hazardous according

to the criteria for any physical or health hazard class in

accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, and

containers used for the storage of such hazardous

substances or mixtures, together with the visible pipes

containing or transporting such hazardous substances and

mixtures, must be labelled with the relevant hazard

pictograms in accordance with that Regulation.

The first paragraph does not apply to

containers used at work for brief periods nor to containers

whose contents change frequently, provided that

alternative adequate measures are taken, in particular for

information and/or training, which guarantee the same

level of protection;

The labels referred to in the first paragraph

may be

- replaced by warning signs set out in Schedule

II, using the same pictograms or symbols. If there is

no equivalent warning sign in paragraph 3.2 of

Schedule II, the relevant hazard pictogram set out in

Annex V of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 must be

used;

- supplemented by additional formula, such as

the name and/or formula of the hazardous substance

or mixture and the details of the hazard; and

- for the transporting of containers at the place of

work, supplemented or replaced by signs that are

applicable throughout the Union for the transport of

hazardous or mixtures."; and

(b)

in the first and second point of paragraph 5 for the

B

words "dangerous substances" there shall be substituted by the

words "hazardous mixtures".

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