S.L. 646.18 Art. 2Interpretation.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"the Act" means the Health and Safety at Work Act; "Authority" means the Occupational Health and Safety Authority established by article 4 of the Act; "detonator" means an initiator for explosives that contains a charge of high explosive fired by means of a flame, spark, electric current or shock tube;

"excavation" means any place at the quarry where minerals are or have been extracted and includes the ground, faces or sides of the quarry and any other incline; "explosive" shall have the same meaning assigned to it in the Explosives Ordinance; "General Provisions" means the General Provisions for Health and Safety at Work Places Regulations; "mineral-extracting industries through drilling" means any industry practising extraction, in the strict sense of the term, of minerals through drilling by boreholes, prospection with a view to such extraction or preparation of extracted materials for sale, in the latter case excluding the activities of processing the materials extracted; "misfire" means an occurrence in relation to the firing of shots where testing before firing reveals broken continuity which cannot be rectified or when a shot or any part of a shot fails to explode when an attempt is made to fire it; "quarrying" shall have the same meaning assigned in these regulations to surface and underground mineral-extracting industries and shall exclude any work executed on public roads and any excavation made for the purpose of, or in connection with the extraction of such minerals where the exclusive purpose of that extraction is to enable the minerals so extracted to be used for the purpose of carrying out any building, civil engineering or engineering construction work on the site at which the extraction has taken place; "surface and underground mineral-extracting industries" means any industry practising surface or underground extraction, in the strict sense of the term, of minerals, prospection with a view to such extraction or preparation of extracted materials for sale, in the latter case excluding the activities of processing the materials extracted and in all cases excluding the mineral-extracting industries through drilling;

"shotfirer" means a person appointed pursuant to regulation 4(3)(a)(ii), Annex IV, to be responsible for shotfiring operations;

"workers’ health and safety representative" means 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.