Factories (Building Operations and Works of Engineering Construction) Regulations
Table of Contents
Part I PRELIMINARY
1 Citation
2 Definitions
3 Application
4 Obligations
Part II GENERAL PROVISIONS
5 Overhead protection
6 Falling hazards
7 Drowning hazards
8 Slipping hazards
9 Tripping and cutting hazards
10 Access to workplace
11 Dust and gases
12 Corrosive substances
13 Eye protection
14 Respirators
15 Protective apparel
16 Electrical hazards
17 Power-driven saws
18 Public vehicular traffic
19 Stability of structures
19A Structures and supports to be checked
20 Illumination of passageways, etc.
21 Storage of materials and equipment
22 Disposal of debris
23 Numbering and marking of floors
24 Use of safety helmets
25 Site safety supervisors
26 Contractor’s safety supervisors
27 Safety committees
27A Safety management system
27B Safety audit
Part III CONCRETE WORK
28 General requirements
29 Inspection and supervision
30 Beams, floors and roofs
31 Stripping
32 Reshoring
Part IV STRUCTURAL STEEL AND PRECAST CONCRETE ASSEMBLY
33 Placing of structural members
34 Holing or cutting of structural members
35 Tag-lines
36 Erection of lintels
37 Permanent flooring — skeleton steel construction in tiered buildings
38 Temporary flooring — skeleton steel construction in tiered buildings
Part V CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF STEEP ROOFS
39 Work on steep roofs
40 Construction and installation of roofing brackets
41 Crawling boards
Part VI CATCH PLATFORMS AND HOARDINGS
42 Use of catch platforms
43 Catch platforms
44 Hoardings
Part VII CHUTES, SAFETY BELTS AND NETS
45 Chutes
46 Construction of chutes
47 Danger signs
48 Chute maintenance
49 Safety belts
50 Anchorage for safety belts and life lines
51 Instruction in use
52 Protection of life lines
53 Inspection of safety belts and life lines
54 Safety nets
55 Storage
56 Inspection of safety nets
Part VIII RUNWAYS AND RAMPS
57 Use by vehicles
58 Use by employees
59 Use by wheel-barrows, etc.
60 Slope
Part IX LADDERS AND STEP-LADDERS
61 Construction
62 Handhold to be provided
63 Exception
64 Loose footing
65 Prevention against slipping or falling
66 Swaying and sagging
67 Landing place
68 Rungs
69 Materials to be used for ladders
Part X SCAFFOLDS
70 Construction and materials
71 Approved metal scaffolds
72 Notification of intention to erect scaffolds
73 Supervision by scaffold supervisor
74 Duty of scaffold supervisor
75 Scaffold erectors
76 Design of professional engineer required
77 Timber roller scaffold
78 Maintenance
79 Standards, ledgers and putlogs
80 Working platforms
81 Boards, planks and decking
82 Only 2 levels to be used at any one time
83 Removal of waste materials
84 Work at end of wall
85 Repair of damaged scaffolds
86 Opening only for access
87 Ladders
88 Guardrails and toe boards at working platform and working place
89 Ties
90 Bracing
91 Transoms
92 Spigots, jointpins, etc.
93 Adjustable base plates
94 Certain scaffolds erected in one plane
95 Foundation of scaffolds
96 Scaffolds not to be overloaded
97 Scaffolds used by workmen of different employers
98 Precautions against dangerous equipment, etc.
99 Inspection of scaffolds
100 Overlay and screening nets
101 Tower scaffolds
102 Gear for suspension of scaffolds
103 Trestle, cantilever, jib, figure and bracket scaffolds, etc.
104 Scaffolds supported by buildings
105 Suspended scaffolds
106 Suspended scaffolds raised or lowered by winches or climbers
107 Suspended scaffolds counter-balanced by counter-weights
108 Weight of counter-balance
109 Prevention of sway
110 Age limit of operator
111 Loading
112 Safety device for suspended scaffold
Part XI DEMOLITION
113 Preparation of demolition work
114 Protection of adjacent structures
115 Demolition of walls, partitions, etc.
116 Inspection
117 Method of operation
118 Access to floor
119 Floor openings
120 Demolition of structural steel
121 Storage of materials
122 Barricades, catch platforms and warning signs
123 Mechanical method of demolition
Part XII EXCAVATION AND TUNNELLING WORKS
124 Notification of intention to carry out excavation and tunnelling work
125 Site superintendent
126 Site safety supervisor for tunnelling work
127 Warning notices
128 Control of personnel
129 Tampering with fittings
130 Illumination level
131 Stability of structures
132 General requirements
133 Piling, shoring and bracing
134 Access to excavation
135 Trench excavation
136 Deep trenches
137 Positioning of machinery
138 Training
139 Rescue team
140 Breathing apparatus
141 Tunnelling safety measures
142 Underground air
143 Supply lines
144 Shafts
145 Lifts for shafts
146 Communications
147 Code of signals
148 Clearances
149 Refuge areas
150 Use of internal combustion engines
151 Hydraulic oils
152 Hoses and couplings
153 Installations for hoses
154 Fire resistant hoses
155 Flameproof equipment
156 Oil and fuel stored underground
157 Gases used underground
158 Water for fire-fighting
159 Fire-fighting facilities
160 Fire-fighting procedure and fire control
161 Flooding
162 Air-tight steel curtains
163 Resting and other facilities
164 Air-borne contaminants
165 Ventilation
166 Appointment of competent person for compressed air works
167 Gauge attendants
168 Air supply plant
169 Valves
170 Low pressure air compressor
171 Power source
172 Air mains
173 Bulkheads and air locks
174 Diaphragms
175 Electrical equipment
176 Circuit breakers
177 Transformers
178 Lighting
179 Live conductors
180 Welding sets
181 Minimum air supply
182 Air quality
183 Temperature
184 Man-locks
185 Capacity of man-locks
186 Equipment in man-locks
187 Notices in man-locks
188 Compression and decompression procedure and use of man-lock
189 Decanting
190 Persons taken ill during decompression
191 Persons without experience
192 Work in pressures exceeding one bar
193 Time to be spent at atmospheric pressure
194 Pressure exceeding 3.4 bars
195 Maximum period of employment
196 Period of employment
197 Identification badges
198 Exit in case of emergency
199 Consumption of alcohol and smoking
200 Duty to follow instructions of lock attendant
201 Medical locks
202 Use of medical locks
203 Facilities and medicines in medical lock
204 Man-lock and medical lock attendants
205 Attendance at man-lock
206 Attendance at medical lock
207 Duties of man-lock attendants
208 Appointment of medical practitioner
209 Notification of barotrauma and compressed air illness
210 Persons suffering from cold, chest infection, etc.
211 Maintenance of records
Part XIII MATERIAL HOISTS AND EMPLOYEE’S LIFTS
212 Maintenance and operation of material handling and hoisting equipment
213 Loading of material handling equipment
214 Operations and signalmen
215 Signals for hoisting engine operation
216 Protection of operator of material handling machinery and hoists
217 Protection of moving parts
218 Refuelling
219 Material handling machinery at rest
220 Tag-line for loads
221 Riding
222 Hoist brakes
223 Power driven material handling machines
224 Repairs and lubrication of machines
225 Anchorage for hoisting machines
226 Chutes and hoppers
227 Duty of operator
228 Material of hoisting rope
229 Fibre rope
230 Wire rope
231 Sheaves
232 Fittings
233 Use of chains
234 Construction of material hoist towers
235 Lifts for employees
236 Maintenance and use of lifts
237 Lift car construction
238 Lighting
239 Springs or buffers
240 Electrical wiring
241 Initial inspection and lubrication
242 Tests
243 Operation of lift car and attendant
244 Thoroughfare
Part XIV CRANES AND DERRICKS
245 Strength and stability
246 Inspection
247 Footing
248 Brakes and locking devices
249 Attachment of loads
250 Limitations on modifications of cranes and derricks
251 Cranes, outriggers and counter-weights
252 Cranes construction — jib
253 Capacity chart
254 Radius and safe working load indicator
255 General operation
256 Operation with demolition ball
257 Operation near power line
258 Construction of derricks
259 Foot blocks of derricks
260 Guy derricks
261 Capacity chart for derrick
262 Overloading
Part XV PILING
263 Stability of adjacent structures
264 Inspection
265 Protection of operator
266 Instructions
267 Handling of piles
268 Pile driver not in use
269 Ladders
270 Working platforms on piling frames
271 Piles
272 Pile testing
273 Footing
Part XVI EXPLOSIVES
274 Handling of explosives
275 Smoking and open lights
276 Opening packages
277 Deepening holes
278 Size of holes
279 Removing cartridge wrappers
280 Loading near other operations
281 Loading and tamping
282 Warning and retreat
283 Return to blast area
284 Misfires
285 Operations during thunderstorm
FIRST SCHEDULE Permissible Levels in Free Air Tunnels and Shafts
SECOND SCHEDULE Sensitivity of Earth Leakage Circuit Breakers
THIRD SCHEDULE Quality of Compressed Air in Working Chamber, Man-lock and Medical Lock
FOURTH SCHEDULE Lock Attendant’s Register
FIFTH SCHEDULE Compression Procedure
SIXTH SCHEDULE Compressed Air Worker’s Transfer Record
Legislative History
