Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993

Ventilation

6.  —

(1) Effective and suitable provision shall be made to ensure that every enclosed workplace is ventilated by a sufficient quantity of fresh or purified air.

(2) Where necessary for reasons of health or safety any plant used for the purpose of complying with paragraph (1) shall include an effective device to give visible or audible warning of any failure of that plant.

(3) This regulation shall not apply to any enclosed workplace or part of a workplace which is subject to the provisions of—

(a) section 31 of the Factories Act (Northern Ireland) 1965(1);

(b) regulations 48 to 51 of the Shipbuilding and Ship-Repairing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1971(2);

(c) regulation 21 of the Construction (General Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1963(3);

(d) regulation 18 of the Docks Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989.

(1)

1965 c. 20 (N.I.); section 31 is amended by S.R. 1984 No. 283

(2)

S.R. & O. (N.I.)1971 No. 372; regulation 50 is amended by S.R. 1991 No. 13

(3)

S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1963 No. 87, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.