Number 9/1980: SAFETY IN INDUSTRY ACT, 1980

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Number 9 of 1980

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SAFETY IN INDUSTRY ACT, 1980

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I

Preliminary and General

Section
1.	Short title, commencement, construction and collective citation.
2.	Interpretation.
3.	Definition of “factory” amended.
4.	Amendment by order of Acts and section 3 of Principal Act.
5.	Regulations for safety and health.
6.	Serving and sending of documents.
7.	Repeals.

PART II

Safety and Notification of Accidents

8.	Duties of persons employed.
9.	General duties of manufacturers etc. as regards plant for use at work.
10.	Power of Minister to require plant to be examined and tested and to require certain reports.
11.	Prohibition notices.
12.	Place of employment and means of access or egress to be safe.
13.	Noise.
14.	Temperature.
15.	Accommodation for taking meals, etc.
16.	Washing facilities.
17.	Training and supervision of persons working at machines.
18.	Cleaning of machinery.
19.	Protection of eyes.
20.	Removal of dust and fumes.
21.	Precautions in places where dangerous fumes are liable to be present.
22.	Means of escape in case of fire; means of giving fire warning to be examined and tested.
23.	Fire drill.
24.	Docks, wharves, quays and warehouses.
25.	Construction and maintenance of floors, passages and stairs.
26.	Rain etc. to be excluded from workrooms etc.
27.	Fire extinguishers, etc.
28.	Cranes and other lifting machines.
29.	Hoists, lifts, cranes and other lifting machines, chains, ropes and other lifting tackle.
30.	Fixed vessels containing liquids etc.
31.	Steam boilers.
32.	Steam receivers.
33.	Air receivers.
34.	Notification and recording of accidents.

PART III

Safety Representatives, Safety Committees, Safety Delegates and Safety Statements

35.	Safety representative.
36.	Safety committee and safety delegate.
37.	Safety representative or safety committee to be appointed by occupier in certain circumstances.
38.	Minister may cause certain investigations to be carried out on receipt of request from safety representative, safety committee or safety officer.
39.	Safety statements.
40.	Amendment of sections 2 and 3 of Principal Act.
41.	Application of section 37 of Principal Act to certain electrical stations.
42.	Amendment of sections 39, 72 and 85 of Principal Act.
43.	Extension of sections 88 and 89 of Principal Act.
44.	Amendment of section 111 of Principal Act.
45.	Amendment of section 112 of Principal Act.
46.	Amendment of section 120 (1) of Principal Act.
47.	Metric conversion of, or provision of metric equivalents for, certain measurements specified in Principal Act.
48.	Amendment of Third Schedule to Principal Act.

PART V

Miscellaneous

49.	Chairman of Advisory Council.
50.	Industrial medical advisers.
51.	Certain medical practitioners enabled to issue certificates of fitness under section 80 of Principal Act.
52.	Fee payable to medical practitioners under section 76 of Principal Act.
53.	Powers of inspectors to take samples, etc.
54.	Certain publications privileged.
55.	Prosecution of offences.
56.	Penalties for offences under Principal Act increased.

SCHEDULE

Amendments of Principal Act (Metric Conversion or Provision of Metric Equivalents for certain Imperial and other Measurements)

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Number 9 of 1980

SAFETY IN INDUSTRY ACT, 1980

AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER PROVISIONS FOR SECURING THE SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE OF PERSONS AT WORK, TO AMEND THE FACTORIES ACT, 1955 , AND TO MAKE OTHER PROVISIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [9th June, 1980]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: