S.L. 646.25 Art. 2Interpretation. Cap. 424.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"the Act" means the Occupational Health and Safety Authority Act;

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

"client" means any natural or legal person for whom a project is carried out;

"competent person" means a person possessing adequate qualifications, suitable training and sufficient knowledge, experience and skill for the safe performance of the specific task or work required;

"construction site" means any construction site at which building or civil engineering works are carried out, a non-exhaustive list of which is given in Schedule I;

*These Regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 52 of 2025. †Vide Regulation 27 of Legal Notice 52 of 2025. REQUIREMENTS FOR WORK AT CONSTRUCTION SITES)

"contractor" means a contractor or employer whose workers undertake, carry out or manage construction work, and who supplies materials and, or labour to carry out such work;

"domestic client" means a client for whom a project is being carried out which is not in the course or furtherance of a business of that client;

"health and safety file" means a file containing relevant health and safety information to be taken into account during any subsequent works;

"health and safety plan" means a document establishing the rules applicable to the construction site and the specific measures concerning work which falls within one or more categories of Schedule II;

"project" means any development which includes or is intended to include construction work;

"project supervisor" means any natural or legal person responsible for the health and safety supervision of a project, appointed by a client;

"scaffold or scaffolding" means any temporary structure on or from which persons may perform work in connection with an activity to which these regulations apply, and any temporary structure which enables persons to obtain access to or which enables materials to be taken to any place at which such work is performed, and includes any working platform, gangway, run, ladder or step-ladder (other than an independent ladder or step-ladder which does not form part of such a structure) together with any guard-rail, toe-board or other safe guards and all fixings, but does not include a lifting appliance or a structure used merely to support such an appliance or to support other machinery or plant;

"self-employed person" means any person, other than a person in the employment, traineeship or apprenticeship of a contractor, whose professional activity contributes to the completion of a project.