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Contents

Preface .....................................................................................................................V

1. General provisions .............................................................................................. 1
1.1. Objective............................................................................................... 1
1.2. Application ........................................................................................... 1
1.3. Definitions............................................................................................ 2

2. General duties...................................................................................................... 5
2.1. General duties of competent authorities ................................................ 5
2.2. General duties of employers................................................................. 6
2.3. General duties of self-employed persons ............................................. 7
2.4. Co-operation and co-ordination............................................................ 7
2.5. General rights and duties of workers.................................................... 8
2.6. General duties of designers, engineers, architects................................ 9
2.7. General duties of clients....................................................................... 9
3. Safety of workplaces......................................................................................... 10
3.1. General provisions.............................................................................. 10
3.2. Means of access and egress................................................................ 10
3.3. Housekeeping ..................................................................................... 10
3.4. Precautions against the fall of materials and persons, and
collapse of structures.......................................................................... 10
3.5. Prevention of unauthorised entry........................................................ 11
3.6. Fire prevention and fire fighting......................................................... 11
3.7. Lighting .............................................................................................. 13
4. Scaffolds and ladders ....................................................................................... 14
4.1. General provisions ............................................................................. 14
4.2. Materials............................................................................................. 14
4.3. Design and construction ..................................................................... 15
4.4. Inspection and maintenance ............................................................... 16
4.5. Lifting appliances on scaffolds........................................................... 17
4.6. Prefabricated scaffolds ....................................................................... 17
4.7. Use of scaffolds.................................................................................. 17
4.8. Suspended scaffolds ........................................................................... 18

5. Lifting appliances and gear............................................................................. 19
5.1. General provisions.............................................................................. 19
5.2. Hoists.................................................................................................. 22
5.3. Derricks Stiff-leg derricks.................................................................. 24
5.4. Gin poles............................................................................................. 25
5.5. Tower cranes ...................................................................................... 26
5.6. Lifting ropes ....................................................................................... 27
6. Transport, earth-moving and materials-handling equipment...................... 28
6.1. General provisions.............................................................................. 28
6.2. Power shovels, excavators.................................................................. 30
6.3. Bulldozers........................................................................................... 32
6.4. Scrapers .............................................................................................. 32

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