S.L. 646.19 Art. 6Duties and responsibilities of the employer.

An employer shall, prior to allowing entry or work in a confined space, ensure that:

(a) a proper permit to work system is set up and maintained to regulate any entry and work in each and every confined space, depending on the nature of the risks;

(b) a competent person has carried out an assessment of the hazards which are present in the confined space, which may arise during the course of work inside the confined space and which are present outside but which may create an additional hazard for workers inside the confined space, and for all such hazards, the competent person shall assess the resultant risks to health and safety;

(c) the valid permit to work is placed at a position outside HAVING EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERES)

and adjacent to the confined space, where it can be readily viewed and read, and adequate measures shall be taken to prevent, so far as reasonably practicable, the defacement and alteration of this document: Provided that where the hazards and resultant risks are deemed by the competent person to be low, the permit to work document need not be put up, and shall inform the workers accordingly;

(d) any worker who is to perform work in a confined space is informed of the contents of the permit to work;

(e) all the requirements set out by the competent person in the permit to work are complied with at all times when any person enters the confined space;

(f) entry into a confined space by any person is essential.