Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 2024

      The Quarries Regulations 1999


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


1999 No. 2024

HEALTH AND SAFETY

The Quarries Regulations 1999

  Made 12th July 1999 
  Laid before Parliament 27th July 1999 
  Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS


PART I

Interpretation and general
1. Citation and commencement.
2. Interpretation.
3. Meaning of quarry.
4. Application.

PART II

Health and safety management
5. Duties of the person entitled to work the quarry.
6. General duties of the operator.
7. The health and safety document.
8. Management structure.
9. Training and competence.
10. Instructions, rules and schemes.
11. Review of health and safety measures.

PART III

Risk control
12. Inspection.
13. Benches and haul roads.
14. Rules controlling risk from vehicles.
15. Escape and rescue facilities at the quarry.
16. Barriers.

PART IV

Additional health and safety requirements
17. Compliance with Part IV.
18. Permits to work.
19. Safety drills.
20. Fire and explosion hazards.
21. Control of harmful and explosive atmospheres.
22. Danger areas.
23. Lighting.

PART V

Explosives.
24. Application of this Part.
25. Operator's duties.
26. Supervision of shotfiring operations and trainee shotfirers and records of appointment.
27. Shotfirer's duties.
28. Misfires.
29. Prohibited activities.

PART VI

Excavations and tips
30. General duty to ensure safety of excavations and tips.
31. Excavations and tips rules.
32. Appraisal of excavations and tips.
33. Meaning of "geotechnical assessment" and operator's duties in relation to geotechnical assessments.
34. Operator's duties in relation to excavations and tips which are a significant hazard ("notifiable" excavations and tips).
35. Operator's duties in relation to excavations and tips which are not a significant hazard.
36. Duty to keep record of substances tipped.
37. Notification of excavations and tips.
38. Transitional provisions.

PART VII

Duties of employers and participation and duties of persons at work
39. Co-operation.
40. Participation of persons at work.
41. Duty of employers of employees at work at a quarry.
42. Duty of persons at work at a quarry.
43. Health surveillance.

PART VIII

Miscellaneous and general
44. Record keeping.
45. Notification of quarrying operations.
46. Exemptions.

PART IX

Repeals, modifications and revocations
47. Repeals and modifications.
48. Revocations and modifications to instruments.

  Schedule 1. Content of geotechnical assessments.

  Schedule 2. Repeals and modifications of the 1954 Act.

  Schedule 3. Modifications of the Factories Act 1961.

  Schedule 4. Modifications of the 1969 Act.

  Schedule 5. Revocations and modifications of instruments.

  Explanatory Note  

 
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