S.L. 646.9 Art. 4General duties.

(1) It shall be the duty of an employer to provide and to ensure the presence at all times of suitable and appropriate health and, or safety signs at every place of work under his control, and in all cases where hazards cannot be avoided or adequately reduced by techniques for collective protection or measures, methods or procedures used in the organization of work, or when the risks resulting from such hazards cannot be adequately reduced except through the provision of the appropriate signs: Provided that, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the provision by an employer of health and, or safety signs shall not exempt the employer from carrying out an adequate and appropriate risk assessment which takes into account the nature of the activities carried out, or from adopting all appropriate techniques for collective protection, or from instituting any preventive measure, or any other method or procedure used in the organization of work by which to avoid or to adequately reduce the risks resulting from the presence of hazards at the place of work.

(2) It shall be the duty of an employer to appropriately maintain any health and, or safety sign installed at a place of work, and to replace any sign which is torn, defaced or has otherwise become illegible.

(3) It shall be the duty of an employer to ensure that all workers have been informed, adequately instructed and trained, in a manner which is comprehensible and relevant, in the meaning of health and, or safety signs including those signs incorporating words, and on the general and specific behaviour and on the measures required to be taken in connection with such signs.

(4) It shall be the duty of an employer to consult workers and, or workers’ health and safety representatives, who shall also be afforded every reasonable opportunity to make proposals and to participate in discussions on matters concerning the implementation of these regulations.