Factories and Machineries Act

1967

Regulations Related to Safety

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LECTURE OBJECTIVES
 To introduce the objectives the Regulations
 To reviews the Parts in Regulations Related to Safety
 To reviews common and important Regulations related to
safety.

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 REGULATIONS RELATING TO
SAFETY

CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY – EXAMINATION, 1970

ELECTRIC PASSENGERS AND GOODS LIFT, 1970
FENCING OF MACHINERY AND SAFETY, 1970
NOTIFICATION, CERTIFICATE OF FITNESS AND
INSPECTION, 1970
PERSON IN-CHARGE, 1970
SAFETY, HEALTH AND WELFARE, 1970
STEAM BOILER AND UNPRESSURED VESSEL, 1970
BUILDING OPERATIONS AND WORKS OF
ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION (SAFETY), 1989
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FMA (Certificate of Competency – Examination),
1970
 Objectives of the Regulation:
 To provide Certificate of Competency

 Identification of Panel of Examiners and Appeal Board

 Listing the type of examinations for competency

 Type of qualification of engineers

 Workshop service

 Steam and Internal Combustion engine service

 Steam and Electric Dredgemaster

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FMA (Electric Passenger and Goods Lift)
Regulations, 1970
 Objectives of the Regulation:
 To describe the manner of lift application

 To detail lift requirements before an application.

 To detail the requirement in the design, construction,

installation and testing of the lift
 To describe the duty of the lift owner

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FMA (Electric Passenger and Goods Lift)
Regulations, 1970
 General:
 All electric passenger and goods lifts

 Request of certifications ( 4 types)

 Design, Construction, Installation and Test:

 Lift load and capacity: must be displayed on each lift

 Landing doors

 Maintenance:
 A Register of maintenance

 3 monthly inspections and monthly service by a competent

person

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FMA (Fencing of Machinery and Safety)
Regulations, 1970
 Objectives of the Regulation;
 To provide specification for guard and guard rails

 To provide general conditions in fencing of machineries

 Prime movers

 Transmission machineries

 Driven Machineries

 To list the duty and liabilities of occupiers

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FMA (Fencing of Machinery and Safety)
Regulations, 1970
 Deals with safeguarding the machinery
 All dangerous parts of a machine, including power source
and transmission must be guarded
 It describe the methods for guarding various parts of a
machine
 Other machinery that is not listed must also be securely
fenced
 6 Schedules on materials and dimensions of machinery
guards

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FMA (Notification, Certificate of Fitness and
Inspection), 1970
 Objectives of the Regulation:
 To provide the procedure of notification on;

 Operation of factory

 Use of machinery

 Accident and Industrial Diseases

 To detail types of machineries requiring Certificate of

Fitness
 To describe methods and procedures of inspection of
machineries.

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FMA (Person In Charge) Regulations, 1970
 Requirement certificate of competency:
1. Steam boiler

2. Steam engine

3. Internal combustion engine

4. Dredge

 Steam engine driver’s certificate of competent (<2000 sq. ft.)

 Engineering certificate (> 2000 sq. ft.)
 Instruction and training attending a course and a 10 days of
supervision.

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FMA (Steam Boiler and Unfired Pressure Vessel)
Regulations, 1970
 Objectives of the Regulation;
 To describe the application, exemption, manufacture and
importing steam boilers and pressure vessel.
 To describe the standard conditions for steam boilers and
unfired pressure vessels.
 To detail the requirement of the key parts of

 Steam boiler

 Unfired pressure vessels

 To detail other requirements and provisions of the parts.

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FMA (Steam Boiler and Unfired Pressure Vessel)
Regulations, 1970
 Conditions for obtaining the permission of the Chief Inspector
before a steam boiler or unfired pressure vessel is
manufactured or imported.
 Steam boiler and unfired pressure vessels must comply to
one of the codes listed in various Schedules.
 Steam tests for new or altered steam boilers.
 Working tests for new or altered unfired pressure vessels.
 Hydrostatic testing before put in service for all new steam
boilers and unfired pressure vessels and then a 7 years
interval

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FMA (Building Operations and Works of Engineering
Construction) (Safety) Regulations, 1989

 Objectives of the Regulation:

 To identify general requirements for all activities under
BOWEC
 To details main safety components involve in BOWEC
activities;
 Concrete work

 Structural steel and precast concrete assembly

 Cleaning, repairing and maintenance of roof, gutters,

windows, louvres and ventilators
 Catch platforms

 Chutes, safety belt and nets

 Runways and ramps

 Ladders and step ladders

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Cont:
 Scaffolds
 Demolition
 Excavation work
 Material handling and storage, use and disposal
 Blasting and use of explosives
 Hand and power tools

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FMA (Building Operations and Works of Engineering
Construction) (Safety) Regulations, 1989

 Building Operations:
 “the construction, structural alteration, repair and
maintenance of a building (including re-pointing, re-
decoration and external cleaning of the structure) the
demolition of a building, and the preparation for and the
laying of the foundation of an intended building”
 Engineering Construction:
 “…the construction of any railway line or siding and the
construction, structural alteration or repair (including re-
pointing and re-painting) or the demolition of any dock,
harbour, inland navigation, tunnel bridge, viaduct,
waterworks or gas holder…”

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FMA (SAFETY, HEALTH AND
WELFARE), 1970
Will be in next week lecture

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