S.L. 646.8 Art. 16Traffic routes.

(1) The employer shall take all the necessary steps to ensure that all traffic routes, including traffic routes to emergency exits, as well as stairs, fixed ladders and loading bays and ramps, are suitably located and dimensioned to ensure easy, safe and appropriate access for pedestrians or vehicles in such a way as not to endanger workers employed in the vicinity of these traffic routes or other pedestrians: Provided that routes used for pedestrian traffic and, or goods traffic must be dimensioned in accordance with the number of potential users and the type of undertaking.

(2) All such traffic routes shall be made of sound and suitable construction, and properly maintained, and they shall be kept free from any obstruction, from any defect in the surface, and from any substance likely to cause persons to slip, trip, fall or otherwise cause accidents.

(3) The employer shall take all necessary steps to ensure that all routes used by pedestrians and by vehicular and industrial traffic are clearly identified and adequateIy marked, maintained, safe for workers or any other person in the vicinity of these traffic routes, and that they are kept clear at all times:

Provided that where vehicles and pedestrians use the same traffic route, there is sufficient separation between them.

(4) An employer shall ensure that where pedestrian and vehicle routes cross, appropriate crossing points for pedestrians are provided, and appropriate safety signs put up to indicate their location: Provided that where such crossing points are provided, and where the indicated safety signs have been put up by an employer, it shall be the duty of a pedestrian to make use of such crossing points.

(5) It shall be the duty of an employer to ensure that there is sufficient clearance between vehicular traffic routes and doors, gates, passages for pedestrians, corridors and staircases, and such clearance should be kept unobstructed at all times.