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Version date: 1 November 2007 - onwards
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Regulation 33 Guards and protection devices

An employer shall ensure that -

(a) work equipment presenting risk due to falling objects or projections is fitted with appropriate safety devices corresponding to the risk,

(b) work equipment presenting hazards due to emissions of gas, vapour, liquid or dust is fitted with appropriate containment devices, extraction devices, or both, near the sources of the hazard,

(c) work equipment and parts of such equipment are, where necessary for the safety and health of employees, stabilised by clamping or some other means,

(d) where there is a risk of rupture or disintegration of parts of work equipment, likely to pose significant danger to the safety and health of employees, appropriate protection measures are taken,

(e) where there is a risk of physical contact with moving parts of work equipment which could lead to accidents, those parts are provided with guards or protection devices to prevent access to danger zones or to halt movement of dangerous parts before the danger zones are reache

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