Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 (Act No. 85 of 1993)RegulationsAsbestos Regulations, 20011. Definitions |
In these Regulations, any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act shall have the meaning so assigned and, unless the text otherwise indicates—
means an approved inspection authority for the monitoring of asbestos concentrations in the air;
means any of the following minerals :
| (a) | Amosite |
| (b) | Chrysotile |
| (c) | Crocidolite |
| (d) | Fibrous actinolite |
| (e) | Fibrous anthophyllite; and |
| (f) | Fibrous tremolite, |
or any mixture containing any of these minerals;
means airborne or settled dust, which contains or is likely to contain regulated asbestos fibres;
means an undesirable or superfluous asbestos-containing by-product, emission or residue of any process or activity that has been—
| (a) | discarded by any person; |
| (b) | accumulated and stored by any person with the purpose of eventually discarding it with or without prior treatment connected with the discarding thereof; or |
| (c) | stored by any person with the purpose of recycling, re-using or extracting a usable product from such matter; |
means work that exposes or is likely to expose any person to asbestos dust;
includes demolition, alteration, stripping, removing, repair, gleaning of any spilt asbestos, or high-pressure water jetting of any structure containing asbestos lagging or insulation, but does not include work performed on asbestos cement sheeting and related products and asbestos cement products that form part of the structure of a workplace, building, plant or premises;
means exposed or likely to be exposed to asbestos dust while at the workplace, and "exposure" has a corresponding meaning;
means the Monitoring Strategies for Toxic Substances, HSG 173, published by the Health and Safety Executive of the United Kingdom;
means the Methods for the Determination of Hazardous Substances 3914 of the Health and Safety Executive of the United Kingdom: Asbestos fibres in air, sampling and evaluation by phase contrast microscopy (PCM) under the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations, 1995 HSE ISBN 0 71 76 091 3 8, as revised from time to time;
means a programme according to the monitoring strategy as contemplated in OESSM and HSG 173;
means the planning and carrying out of a measurement programme and the recording of the results thereof;
means a limit value set by the Minister for a stress factor in the workplace;
means the Occupational Exposure Sampling Strategy Manual, published by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), United States of America: Department of Health, Education and Welfare;
means an occupational exposure limit of 0,2 regulated asbestos fibres per milliliter of air averaged over any continuous period of four hours measured in accordance with MDHS 3914;
means the provincial director as defined in regulation 1 of the General Administrative Regulations published under Government Notice R. 1449 of September 1996;
means a mandatory or employer conducting demolition work, who is registered with the chief inspector;
means a particle of asbestos with a length-to diameter ratio greater than 3 to I , a length greater than 5 micrometres and a diameter less than 3 micrometres;
means a device which is worn over at least the mouth and nose to prevent the inhalation of air that is not safe, and which device conforms to a standard approved by the Minister;
means a respirator zone contemplated in regulation1 O(a);
means the Code of Practice for the Identification and Classification of Dangerous Substances and Goods, SABS 0228, published by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS);
means the Code of Practice for Packaging of Dangerous Goods for Road and Rail Transportation in South Africa, SABS 0229, published by the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS);
means the concentration to which workers can be exposed continuously for a short period of time, which is a 10-minute Time-Weighted Average (TWA) exposure for asbestos, which should not be exceeded at any time during the working day even if the 4 hour TWA is within the OEL-TWA;
means an exposure limit of 0,6 regulated asbestos fibres per milliliter of air averaged over any 10 minutes;
means the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 (Act No. 85 of 1993).