Twenty one sets of regulations form an inseparable part of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. These regulations provide specifications and requirements towards the area that they govern. Have a look at the following table, it provides a summary of the current OHS Act regulations.
b) an incident, for which an indicative list is given in Annexure A to this Regulation occurs that does not involve a deliberate intention to work with a HBA but may result in persons being exposed to HBA in the performance of his or her work.
These regulations shall apply to an employer or a self employed person who carries out work at a workplace which may expose any person to the intake of an HCS at the workplace.
These regulations shall apply to every employer and self- employed person at a workplace where lead is produced, processed, used, handled or stored in a form in which it can be inhaled, ingested or absorbed by any person in that workplace.
These Regulations shall apply to every user or lesser of an electrical installation as well as Approved inspection authorities.
These Regulations shall apply to every employer, employee and self-employed person who carries out work whilst using electrical machinery at a workplace.
These Regulations shall apply to every employer, employee and self-employed person who carries out work whilst using machinery at a workplace.
These Regulations shall apply to every employer and self-employed who installs, uses and have lifts, escalators and passenger conveyors in their workplace.
These regulations shall apply to the design, manufacture, operation, repair, modification, maintenance, inspection and testing of pressure equipment with a design pressure equal to or greater than 50 kPa, in terms of the relevant health and safety standard incorporated into these Regulations.
7. Approved and duties of approved inspections authorities.
3. Application for a permit to perform construction work.
These regulations basically shall apply to all diving operations and all persons engaged in diving operations in the Republic of South Africa or the territorial waters thereof.
These regulations shall apply to any employer, self-employed person or user who operates an explosives workplace for the purpose of manufacturing, testing, storing or using explosives.
These regulations shall apply to employers, self employed persons and users, who have on their premises, either permanently or temporarily, a major hazard installation or a quantity of a substance which may pose a risk that could affect the health and safety of employees and the public.
These regulations is there to prohibit or place conditions upon the work that may be required, expected or permitted to be performed by child workers, and which is not prohibited in terms of any law.
The Minister may by notice in the Gazette incorporate in the regulations any health and safety standard or part thereof.