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198
Drinking water provided 1
Floors properly drained 1
Wall surfaces repaired or renewed 12
Hot water supply provided 6
Guards provided on dangerous machines 2
Other contraventions of the Act remedied 17
Exemptions
No. of applications received Nil
No. of applications granted Nil
(i) Running water Nil
(ii) Sanitary conveniences Nil
(iii) Space Nil
(iv) Temperature Nil
Notification of Accidents
Notice of an accident in the prescribed form is required to be
sent to the appropriate enforcing authority if it occurs in any premises
to which the Act applies and causes loss of life or disables an employee
for more than three days from doing his usual work. Each
quarter a return is made to the Ministry of Labour.
The 61 notifications received during the year all related to non
fatal injuries and were mostly of a minor nature. Each case was
investigated by the District Public Health Inspectors and advice was
given where necessary. In only two cases was it considered necessary
to write to the firms concerned and the measures suggested to prevent
the recurrence of similar accidents were readily implemented.
The reported accidents and their analysis for the year under
review are summarised in the following tables:-