Shipbuilding and Ship-Repairing (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1975

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Year: 1975
• Citation: IR SI 322/1975

S.I. No. 322 of 1975.
SHIPBUILDING AND SHIP-REPAIRING (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE) REGULATIONS, 1975
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS.
PART I.
Interpretation and general .
Regulation
1. Citation, commencement.
2. Revocation.
3. Interpretation.
4. Application of Regulations.
5. Obligations under Regulations.
6. Posting of Regulations.
PART II.
Means of Access and Egress, Place of Work and Staging.
7. Safe access in general.
8. General access to vessels in a shipyard.
9. Access to dry dock.
10. Access to vessels at wharf or quay or in dry dock.
11. Access between vessels.
12. Vessels used for access or as a working place.
13. Access to and from bulwarks.
14. Further Provisions as to access.
15. Ladders.
16. Lashing of ladders.
17. Material for staging.
18. Staging, dry dock altars and shoring sills.
19. Upright used for hoisting block.
20. Support of stages on planks.
21. Suspended stages.
22. Boatswains' chairs.
23. Rising stages.
24. Width of stages.
25. Stages from which a person is liable to fall more than 2 metres (6 feet 6 inches).
PART III.
Precautions against Falls of Persons, Materials and Articles.
26. Fencing of dry docks.
27. Protection of openings.
28. Fall of articles from stages.
29. Boxes for loose articles (not tools).
30. Throwing down materials and articles.
31. Loose articles or materials.
PART IV.
Raising and Lowering etc.
32. Application of Part IV.
33. Operation of Part IV.
34. Construction of lifting appliances.
35. Tests, examinations and marking of lifting appliances.
36. Construction of chains, ropes and lifting gear.
37. Testing and annealing of chains, etc.
38. Periodic examination of chains, ropes, etc.
39. Indication of safe working loads.
40. Splices in wire ropes.
41. Load not to exceed safe working load.
42. Secureness of loads.
43. Support of lifting appliances and lifting gear.
44. Wire ropes with broken wires.
45. Knotted chains, etc.
46. Precautions against damage to chains and ropes.
47. Loads on lifting appliances.
48. Heavy loads.
PART V.
Precautions against Asphyxiation Injurious Fumes or Explosions.
49. Ventilation of confined spaces.
50. Precautions against flammable gas or vapour.
51. Precautions against shortage of oxygen.
52. Precautions against dangerous fumes.
53. Application of Regulations 51 and 52.
54. Dangerous substances, dust or fumes.
55. Rivet fires.
56. Placing of gas cylinders and acetylene generators.
57. Further provisions as to acetylene generators.
58. Construction of plant for cutting, welding or heating metal.
59. Precautions after use of apparatus for cutting, welding or heating metal.
60. Naked lights on oil-carrying vessels.
61. Entering oil tanks.
62. Duration of certificates.
63. Posting of certificates.
64. Cleaning of oil tanks.
65. Invalidation of certificates.
66. Provisions as to work in other compartments or spaces.
67. Exceptions from Regulations 60 and 64.
68. Air testing of tanks.
69. Deluging system.
PART VI.
Miscellaneous Safety Precautions.
70. Fencing of machinery.
71. Air receivers.
72. Lighting.
73. Work in boilers, etc.
74. Hatch beams.
75. Jumped-up bolts.
PART VII.
Protective Wear.
76. Hand protection.
77. protection in connection with cutting or welding.
78. Eye protection for other processes.
79. Protection against dust.
80. Protective head gear.
81. Protective clothing.
PART VIII.
Miscellaneous Health Provisions.
82. Prohibition of employment of young persons in certain processes.
83. Exhaust gases.
PART IX.
Training and Supervision .
84. Young persons.
85. Safety supervision.
PART X.
Miscellaneous General Provisions.
86. Canteen facilities.
87. Cloakroom facilities.
88. Washing facilities.
89. Stretchers, ambulances and ambulance rooms, etc.
90. First-aid.
91. and 92. Fire precautions.
S.I. No. 322 of 1975.
SHIPBUILDING AND SHIP-REPAIRING (SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE) REGULATIONS, 1975.
I, MICHAEL O'LEARY, Minister for Labour, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Sections 6, 53, 57, and 71 of the Factories Act, 1955 (No. 10 of 1955), and the Labour (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1966 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1966 ), after consultation with the Minister for Health, and after due compliance with the provisions of the Third Schedule to that Act, hereby make as special Regulations the following Regulations:
PART I.Interpretation and General.
	1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations, 1975.
(2) ( a ) These Regulations, other than Regulations 9, 10 (2), 25 and 26 shall come into operation on the 12th day of January, 1976.
( b ) Regulations 9, 10 (2) and 25 shall come into operation 12 months after the making of these Regulations.
( c ) Regulation 26 shall come into operation 24 months after the making of these Regulations.
	2. The Regulations for the Construction and Repair of Ships in Shipbuilding Yards, 1914 (S.R. & O. No. 461 of 1914) are hereby revoked.
	3. (1) In these Regulations—
"the Act" means the Factories Act, 1955 (No. 10 of 1955);
"approved" means approved for the time being by the Minister;
"available for inspection" means available for inspection by any person using or proposing to use the machinery or plant and by any inspector appointed under the Act;
"certificate of entry" means a certificate given by a responsible person to certify that he has, in an adequate and suitable manner, tested the atmosphere in the place or places specified in the certificate and that, in his opinion, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the likelihood or otherwise of the atmosphere being or becoming dangerous, persons may be permitted to enter such place or places without wearing breathing apparatus;
"lifting appliance" means a crab, winch, pulley block or gin wheel used for raising or lowering, a crane, derrick, sheer-legs, teagle, transporter or runway;
"lifting gear" means a chain sling, rope sling, plate clamp, ring, link, hook, shackle, swivel or eye-bolt used in conjunction with a lifting appliance;
"the Minister" means the Minister for Labour;
"naked light certificate" means a certificate given by a competent analyst to certify that he has, in an adequate and suitable manner, tested, for the presence of flamable vapour, the place or places specified in the certificate and that, in his opinion, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the likelihood or otherwise of the atmosphere becoming flamable, the use of naked lights, fires, lamps or heated rivets may be permitted in such place or places;
"oil" means any liquid which has a flashpoint below 141 degrees Celsius (Abel closed test or Pensky-Martens closed test, whichever is appropriate) and also includes lubricating oil, liquid methane, liquid butane, liquid propane and liquified petroleum gas;
"oil-tank" means any tank or compartment in which oil is, or has been, carried as cargo or for use as lubricating oil, as engine fuel or boiler fuel;
"the operations" mean, in relation to a ship or vessel, its construction, reconstruction, repairing, refitting, painting and finishing, the scaling, scurfing or cleaning of its boilers (including combustion chambers or smoke boxes), and the cleaning of its bilges or oil-fuel tanks or any of its tanks last used for carrying oil. For the purpose of this definition the expression "oil" means oil of any description, whether or not oil within the meaning of the foregoing definition of that expression;
"overall depth" means the vertical distance between the uppermost deck at the side of the vessel and the bottom of the keel, measured at the middle of the overall length;
"person employed" means a person employed in any of the operations;
"public dry dock" means a dry dock which is available for hire;
"safe working load" means the relevant safe working load specified in the latest certificate of test obtained for the purposes of Regulations 35 or 37;
"ship", "vessel" and "harbour" have the same meaning as in the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, except that neither the expression "ship" nor the expression "vessel" shall include a caisson, dock gate or pontoon but shall include a ship or a vessel in the course of construction;
"shipyard" means any yard, marine lift, patent slipway or dry dock (including the precincts thereof) in which ships or vessels are constructed, reconstructed, repaired, refitted or finished;
"stage" means any temporary platform on or from which persons employed perform work in connection with the operations, but does not include a boatswain's chair;
"staging" includes any stage, and any upright, thwart, thwart pin, wedge, distance piece, bolt or other appliance or material, not being part of the structure of the vessel, which is used in connection with the support of any stage, and any guard-rails connected with a stage;
"structure" in Regulations 34, 37, 38, and 39 includes a vessel;
"tanker" means a vessel constructed or adapted for carrying a cargo of oil in bulk;
"young person" has the same meaning as in the Act.
(2) References in these Regulations to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment.
	4. (1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this regulation, these Regulations shall apply to work carried out in any of the operations in a shipyard, harbour or wet dock.
(2) ( a ) Nothing in Parts II to X of these Regulations, other than Regulations 7, 15, 16, 32 to 68, 70, 74 to 81 shall apply in relation to operations in a shipyard which are not carried out upon vessels which both exceed 21.3 metres (70 feet) in length...