Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2007
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) (Amendment) Regulations 2007.
(2) These Regulations come into operation on 12 November 2007.
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paragraphs: The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 299 of 2007 ) are amended as follows:
(a) in Regulation 27, by substituting for the definition of “hoist or lift” the following:
“ ‘hoist or lift’ means a lifting machine which has its direction of movement restricted by a guide or guides but, for the purpose of this Chapter, does not include—
(a) a fork lift truck, order picker, self-propelled variable reach truck or similar type equipment,
(b) platform lifts for use by persons with impaired mobility,
(c) lifting equipment intended for lifting performers during artistic performances, or
(d) lifting equipment fitted in means of transport;”,
(b) by substituting for Regulation 80 the following:
“Protection against electric shock in fault conditions.
80. An employer shall ensure that—
(a) precautions are taken, either by—
(i) earthing and automatic disconnection of the supply of electricity, or
(ii) other suitable means,
to prevent danger arising where any exposed conductive part may become live, and
(b) all electrical circuits supplying—
(i) electric water heating devices,
(ii) electrically heated showers, and
(iii) pumps for electrically operated showers,
which are located in zone (1), as defined by the Electro-Technical Council of Ireland ‘National Rules for Electrical Installations’, of rooms in a place of work containing a bath or shower basin, are protected by a residual current device having a tripping current not exceeding 30 milliamperes operating within such period of time so as to provide the necessary protection to prevent danger to any person coming into direct or indirect contact with any live part of the circuit.”,
(c) in Regulation 81, by substituting for paragraph (4) the following:
“(4) An employer shall ensure that—
(a) portable equipment, other than portable transformers and portable generators, supplied at a voltage exceeding 125 volts alternating current is not used in—
(i) construction work,
(ii) external quarrying activities, or
(iii) damp or confined locations,
unless its rating exceeds 2 kilovolt amperes,
(b) portable hand lamps supplied at a voltage exceeding 25 volts alternating current or 50 volts direct current are not used in—
(i) construction work,
(ii) external quarrying activities, or
(iii) damp or confined locations, and
(c) where a transformer or engine-driven generator is used to supply electricity to portable equipment at a voltage greater than 25 volts, but not exceeding 125 volts, alternating current, the neutral (star) point of the secondary windings of three-phase transformers and generators, or the midpoint of the secondary windings of single-phase transformers and generators, shall be connected to earth and in the case of transformers these shall be of the double wound isolating type.”,
(d) in Regulation 89, by substituting for paragraph (b) the following:
“(b) an existing electrical installation is tested by a competent person in an appropriate manner—
(i) from time to time where required having regard to the nature, location and use of the installation, or
(ii) if an inspector so requires,
and a report of the test is completed by the competent person carrying out the test,”,
(e) by substituting for Regulation 90 the following:
“Earth leakage protection for higher voltage.
90. An employer shall ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that effective means are provided in relation to every circuit in which higher voltage is used to prevent danger arising from leakage currents to earth.”,
(f) by substituting for Regulation 102 the following:
“Stability of supporting structure.
102. An employer shall ensure that a supporting structure is—
(a) suitable and of sufficient strength and rigidity for the purpose for which it is being used,
(b) in the case of a mobile structure, prevented by appropriate devices from moving inadvertently during work at height,
(c) in a case other than a mobile structure, prevented from slipping by secure attachment to the bearing surface or to another structure, by provision of an effective anti-slip device, or by other means of equivalent effectiveness,
(d) stable while being erected, used and dismantled, and
(e) when altered or modified, so altered or modified as to ensure that it remains stable.”,
(g) in Regulation 131, by substituting the following for paragraph (1):
“(1) Without prejudice to section 22 of the Act, an employer shall—
(a) ensure that appropriate health surveillance is made available to those employees for whom a risk assessment referred to in Regulation 124 reveals a risk to their health, and
(b) without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (a)—
(i) in the case of employees whose exposure exceeds an upper exposure action value, make available to them the services of a registered medical practitioner to carry out, or to have carried out on his or her responsibility, a hearing check, and
(ii) in the case of employees whose exposure exceeds a lower exposure action value, make available to them preventive audiometric testing.”,
(h) in Regulation 141, by deleting paragraph (8),
(i) in Regulation 144, by substituting the following for paragraph (d):
“(d) in taking the protective and preventive measures in accordance with paragraph (b) and as regards planning for and implementing measures to monitor and protect the safety and health of a child or young person, take account of section 18 of the Act, and”,
(j) in Regulation 158, by deleting the definition of “supplementary signboard” where it first occurs between the definitions of “safety or health signs” and “signboard”, and