Chapter:	509	Title:	OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	2	Heading:	Purposes of Ordinance	Version Date:	30/06/1997

The purposes of this Ordinance are as follows-

(a) to ensure the safety and health of employees when they are at work;
(b) to prescribe measures that will contribute to making the workplaces of employees safer and healthier for them;
(c) to improve the safety and health standards applicable to certain hazardous processes, plant and substances used or kept in workplaces;
(d) generally to improve the safety and health aspects of working environments of employees.