The OSH ACT

Risk as­sess­ment

25G. (1) Every em­ploy­er shall make a suit­able and suf­fi­cient as­sess­ment of-

(a) the risks to the safe­ty and health of his em­ploy­ees to which they are ex­posed whilst they are at work; and

(b) the risks to the safe­ty and health of per­sons not in his em­ploy­ment aris­ing out of or in con­nec­tion with the con­duct by him of his un­der­tak­ing,

for the pur­pose of iden­ti­fy­ing the mea­sures he needs to take to com­ply with the re­quire­ments and pro­hi­bi­tions im­posed up­on him by or un­der the rel­e­vant statu­to­ry pro­vi­sions.

HEALTH

Clean­li­ness

Sec­tion 31. Every in­dus­tri­al es­tab­lish­ment shall be kept clean and free from ef­flu­via aris­ing from any drain, san­i­tary con­ve­nience or oth­er source, and, with­out prej­u­dice to the gen­er­al­i­ty of the fore­go­ing pro­vi­sion-

(a) ac­cu­mu­la­tions of dirt and refuse shall be re­moved dai­ly, where prac­ti­ca­ble, by suit­able meth­ods from the floors, bench­es, fur­ni­ture, fur­nish­ings and fit­tings of work­rooms, and from the stair­cas­es and pas­sages;

(b) the floors of every work­room shall be kept clean and prop­er­ly main­tained;

(c) ef­fec­tive means shall be pro­vid­ed, main­tained and used to pre­vent the breed­ing of in­sects, rats, mice or oth­er ver­min; and

(d) ef­fec­tive means shall be pro­vid­ed and main­tained for the drain­ing of wet floors and yards, where nec­es­sary.