S.L. 646.11 Art. 3Interpretation.

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"Act" means the Health and Safety at Work Act;

"Authority" means the Occupational Health and Safety Authority established by virtue of article 8 of the Act;

"fixed term contract of employment" means a contract of employment for a specific term which is fixed in advance or which can be ascertained in advance by reference to some relevant circumstance; "health surveillance" means any procedure or investigation used to assess workers’ health in order to detect, identify, and quantify any medical abnormality, and to protect the health of the individual, collective health at the workplace, and the health of the exposed working population, and shall include, but shall not be limited to medical examinations, biological monitoring, radiological examinations, questionnaires, or reviews of health records; "officer" means a health and safety at work officer appointed in accordance with article 18 of the Act and who is in possession of a certificate of appointment issued in accordance with the said article 18 of the Act; "prevention" means and includes all the steps or measures taken or planned at all stages of work carried out in an undertaking to prevent or reduce occupational risks;

"temporary worker" includes any worker under a fixed term contract of employment and, or any worker who has a temporary employment relationship with an emp1oyer, including:

(a) a worker having an employment relationship governed by a fixed term contract of employment concluded directly between the employer and the worker, where the end of the contract is established by objective conditions including reaching a specific date, completing a specific task or the occurrence of a specific event;

(b) a worker having a temporary employment relationship with an employer who has a temporary employment business, and where the worker is assigned to work for, and under the control of an undertaking and, or an establishment making use of his services; "workers’ health and safety representative" and "representative" mean a person, elected, chosen or designated, as prescribed in regulations, to represent workers on all matters relating to the promotion and protection of their health or safety at work appointed in accordance with the Act.