Self-acting machines
18.—(1)  It shall be the duty of the occupier of a workplace to take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that any self-acting machine in the workplace poses no risk to the safety and health of any person working in the workplace.
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(2)  The reasonably practicable steps include the following:
(a)ensuring that no traversing part of any self-acting machine nor any material carried thereon shall, if the space into which it runs is a space over which any person (whether or not at work) is liable to pass, be less than 500 millimetres measured from any fixed structure not being part of the machine to the furthest point of its inward or outward traverse;
(b)ensuring that no person at work in the workplace shall, when the machine is in operation, be in the space between any traversing part of the machine and any fixed part of the machine towards which the traversing part moves on the inward run; and
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(c)displaying on such machinery or at a place nearest to the process or work a notice written in languages understood by the persons at work using such machinery or in any such process or work describing the safety measures to be observed.
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