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59A PDFTitle:FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS REGULATIONSGazette Number:
Regulation:36Heading:OvercrowdingVersion Date:30/06/1997

(1) A notifiable workplace shall not, while work is carried on, be so overcrowded as to cause risk of injury to the health of the persons employed therein.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), a notifiable workplace shall be deemed to be so overcrowded as aforesaid, if the number of persons employed at a time in any workroom is such that the amount of cubic space allowed for every person employed in the room is less than 7 cubic metres. (L.N. 238 of 1984)
(3) In every room in every notifiable workplace a notice shall be posted specifying the number of persons who, having regard to the provisions of this regulation, may be employed in the room.

(50 of 1985 s. 9)