Every employer shall take all reasonable precautionary measures in order to ensure that employees who have to work on or near machinery which is in motion, under pressure, at high temperature or electrically alive (including the operation of such machinery for the purposes of the examination, adjustment, repair, lubrication or testing thereof) are not injured, and shall in particular ensure that—
| (1) | the exposure of employees to dangerous parts of such machinery is limited to the minimum; |
| (2) | the said exposure is authorised by the officer of the watch or other competent person; |
| (3) | such machinery is examined only by a competent person; |
| (4) | any employee who is required to be close to such machinery has, so far as is practicable, a working area which is of adequate size, properly illuminated, and clear of obstructions and loose material; |
| (5) | a notice specifying the hazards relating to such machinery is affixed in a legible form in a conspicuous place on, or in the vicinity of, that machinery or that the area around such machinery is demarcated with hazard tape. |
[Regulation 20(5) substituted by regulation 8 of Notice No. R. 1712 dated 19 December 1997]
