SCHEDULE 1E+W+SPROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO FACTORIES WHICH ARE NOT NEW WORKPLACES, MODIFICATIONS, EXTENSIONS OR CONVERSIONS

PART IE+W+SSPACE

1.  No room in the workplace shall be so overcrowded as to cause risk to the health or safety of persons at work in it.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 1.1.1993 for specified purposes and 1.1.1996 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(2)(3)

2.  Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 1, the number of persons employed at atime in any workroom shall not be such that the amount of cubic space allowed for each is less than 11 cubic metres.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I2Sch. 1 para. 2 in force at 1.1.1993 for specified purposes and 1.1.1996 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(2)(3)

3.  In calculating for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule the amount of cubic space in any room no space more than 4.2 metres from the floor shall be taken into account and, where a room contains a gallery, the gallery shall be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as if it were partitioned off from the remainder of the room and formed a separate room.E+W+S

Commencement Information

I3Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 1.1.1993 for specified purposes and 1.1.1996 in so far as not already in force, see reg. 1(2)(3)