lactories. {Ch. 30. No. 2.

21. (1) There shall, so far as is reasonably practicable,
he provided and maintained safe means of access to every
place at which any person has at any time to work.

(2) Where any person is to work at a place from
which he will be liable to fall a distance more than ten feet,
means shall be provided, so far as is necessary and
practicable, by fencing or otherwise for ensuring his safety.

22. (1) Every hoist or lift shall be of good mechanical
construction, sound material and adequate strength, and
be properly maintained.

(2) Every hoist or lift shall be thoroughly examined
by a competent person at least once in every period of
twelve months, and a report of the result of every such
examination in the prescribed form and containing the
prescribed particulars shall be signed by the person making
the examination and shall within fourteen days be entered
in or attached to the general register.

(3) Such competent person as aforesaid shall not
be in the employ of the occupier of the premises in which
the hoist or lift is situate and shall not be in the employ
of the owner or hirer of the said hoist or lift.

(4) Every hoistway or liftway shall be efficiently
protected by a substantial enclosure fitted with gates,
being such an enclosure as to prevent, when the gates are
shut, any person falling down the way or coming into
contact with any moving part of the hoist or lift.

(5) Any such gate as aforesaid shall be kept effectively
closed except when the cage or platform is at the landing
or opening in the enclosure to which the gate is fitted.

(6) Every hoist or lift and every such enclosure as
aforesaid shall be so constructed as to prevent any part
of any person or goods carried in the hoist or lift being
trapped between any part of the hoist or lift and any fixed
structure or between the counterbalance weight and any
other moving part of the hoist or lift.

_ (7) There shall be marked conspicuously on every
hoist or lift the maximum working load which it can

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Safe means
of access
and place of
emploviment,

Hoists and
lifts.