Health and Safety at Work (General Workplace Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (L.N. No. 22 of 2024)

Regulation 4 amended 2. Regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations is amended in the definition of “first aid supplies” by deleting “the Schedule” and substituting “Schedule 1”.

Regulation 46 amended 3. Regulation 46(2) of the Principal Regulations is amended by deleting “the Schedule” and substituting “Schedule 1”.

Regulation 66 amended 4. Regulation 66 of the Principal Regulations is amended by— (a) renumbering regulation 66 as regulation 66(1); and (b) after subregulation (1), inserting the following new subregulations—   “(2) The employer must ensure the health and safety at work of all his or her workers by providing and maintaining plants and a system of work that is safe and without risk to health.   (3) The employer must ensure that all workplaces under his or her control as listed under Schedule 2 is inspected and audited by a health and safety inspector in accordance with the following— (a) an employer whose workplace or nature of business that is listed as high risk must ensure that his or her workplace is made available for inspection and audit every year; and 72 (b) an employer whose workplace or nature of business that is listed as low risk must ensure that his or her workplace is made available for inspection and audit every 3 years.   (4) A health and safety inspector may conduct an inspection and audit of any workplace at any period other than that scheduled for low or high risk businesses, in the performance of his or her functions under this regulation.   (5) On an inspection and audit under subregulation (3), the Chief Health and Safety Inspector may issue the employer with a certificate of compliance.   (6) The Chief Health and Safety Inspector may cancel any certificate of compliance issued to an employer for a low risk business where the employer’s business is subsequently found to be a high risk business.   (7) Where an employer’s business is found to be a high risk business under subregulation (6), the requirement for an inspection and audit under subregulation (3)(a) applies.”. Schedule amended 5. The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended in the heading by deleting “SCHEDULE” and substituting “SCHEDULE 1”.

Schedule 2 inserted 6. The Principal Regulations are amended after Schedule 1 by inserting the following new schedule— “SCHEDULE 2 (Regulation 66) High risk nature of business Low risk nature of business 1. Poultry farming 1. Fruit growing 2. Forestry and logging 2. Vegetable growing 3. Fishing 3. Cereal grains, sheep, cattle and pigs 4. Meat processing 4. Other agriculture 5. Milk and milk product processing 5. Services to agriculture 6. Manufacture of vegetable or marine 6. Trapping animals oils and margarine 7. Manufacture of flour, starch and 7. Fruit and vegetable processing pastries 8. Manufacture of bread, cakes and 8. Publishing only pastries 9. Manufacture of beer, malt, wine and 9. Printing and publishing brandy 10. Manufacture of other foods 10. Printing and book binding 11. Manufacture of cigarettes, cigars, 11. Printing trade services (not snuff elsewhere classified) 73 High risk nature of business Low risk nature of business 12. Manufacture of other textile products 12 General wholesalers 13. Manufacture of sugar 13. Machinery and equipment wholesalers 14. Manufacture of clothing 14. Cereal grains wholesalers 15. Manufacture of footwear 15. Farm produce wholesalers 16. Wood and wood products 16. Food, drink and tobacco wholesalers 17. Manufacture of furniture and 17. Textile and clothing mattresses 18. Manufacture of paper and paper 18. House goods wholesalers products 19. Manufacture of stationery 19. Department and general stores 20. Manufacture of basic chemicals 20. Clothing fabric and furniture stores 21. Manufacture of other chemicals 21. Household appliances and hardware stores 22. Manufacture of glass and glass 22. New motor vehicle dealers products 23. Manufacture of clay products and 23. Used motor vehicle dealers refectories 24. Manufacture of cement and concrete 24. Motor cycle dealers products 25. Manufacture of non-metallic mineral 25. Boat/caravan dealers products 26. Manufacture of iron and steel products 26. Tyre/battery dealers 27. Manufacture of basic non-ferrous 27. Milk and bread vendors metals 28. Manufacture of non-ferrous metal 28. Other retailors products 29. Manufacture of structural metal 29. Road freight transports products 30. Manufacture of sheet metal products 30. Other services to air transport 31. Manufacture of other fabricated metal 31. Storage products 32. Manufacture of leather and leather 32. Banking products 33. Manufacture of rubber products 33. Investments 34. Manufacture of other products 34. Services to finance and investment 35. Electricity generation, transmission 35. Insurance and distribution 36. Town gas manufacture and 36. Services to insurance distribution 74 High risk nature of business Low risk nature of business 37. Water sewage and drainage 37. Real estate agents 38. Building construction 38. Real estate operators and developers 39. Non-building construction 39. Legal and accounting services 40. Bricklaying and tiling 40. Data processing services 41. Other special construction trades 41. Advertising services 42. Builders hardware wholesalers 42. Typing, copying and mailing services 43. Service stations 43. Collecting and credit reporting services 44. Smash repairs 44. Cleaning services 45. Butcher shops and other food stores 45. Contract parking services 46. Road passenger transport 46. Business services (not elsewhere classified) 47. Rail transport 47. Plant hire and leasing 48. Water transport 48. Hospitals and nursing homes 49. Air transport 49. Medicine 50. Other transport 50. Dentistry 51. Services to road transport 51. Optometry and optical dispensing 52. Water transport terminals and other 52. Fire services services 53. Communication 53. Entertainment 54. Technical services 54. Lotteries 55. Dental laboratories 55. Restaurants, hotels and accommodation 56. Pest control services 56. Laundries and dry cleaners 57. Sanitary and garbage disposal services 57. Hairdressers, beauty salons 58. Minerals, metals and chemical 58. Other personal services wholesalers 59. Any other high risk nature of business 59. Business without a fixed workplace not classified 60. Other specialist wholesalers 61. Any other low risk nature of business not classified” Made this 9th day of May 2024. P. TIKODUADUA Acting Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations Price: 57c STAR PRINTERY PTE LTD, (Government Printer), Suva, Fiji – 2024 41/FGGS/24—170 Official Printer Since 2022