Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2007 🇰🇪

Kenya

Preface

Part I – PRELIMINARY

1. Short title

2. Interpretation

3. Application of Act

4. Approval of codes of practice by Director

5. Use of approved codes of practice in criminal proceedings

Part II – GENERAL DUTIES

6. Duties of occupiers

7. Duty to prepare a safety and health policy statement

8. Discrimination against employee, etc.

9. Safety and health committees

10. Duty not to charge employees for things done or provided

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Part III – ADMINISTRATION

23. The Director

24. Research and related activities

25. Collection of occupation safety and health statistics

26. Appointment of occupational safety and health officers

27. Establishment of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health

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Part IV – ENFORCEMENT

32. Powers of an occupational safety and health officer

33. Power of occupational safety and health officer to conduct proceedings

34. Power to take samples

35. Power to deal with cause of imminent danger

36. Improvement notices

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Part V – REGISTRATION OF WORKPLACES

43. Register of workplaces

44. Registration of workplaces

45. Exceptions to registration

46. Appeals

Part VI – HEALTH-GENERAL PROVISIONS

47. Cleanliness

48. Overcrowding

49. Ventilation

50. Lighting

51. Drainage of floors

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Part VII – MACHINERY SAFETY

55. Safe use of plant, machinery and equipment

56. Prime movers

57. Transmission machinery

58. Other machinery

59. Hand-held and portable power tools and equipments

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Part VIII – SAFETY-GENERAL PROVISIONS

73. Vessels containing dangerous liquids

74. Storage

75. Ladders

76. Ergonomics at the workplace

77. Safe means of access and safe place of employment

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Part IX – CHEMICAL SAFETY

83. The handling, transportation and disposal of chemicals and other hazardous substances

84. Material safety data sheets

85. Labelling and marking

86. Classification of hazardous chemicals and substances

87. Corrosive substances

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Part X – WELFARE-GENERAL PROVISIONS

91. Supply of drinking water

92. Washing facilities

93. Accommodation for clothing

94. Facilities for sitting

95. First-aid

Part XI – HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE SPECIAL PROVISIONS

96. Permit to work

97. Work processes which may harm persons below eighteen years

98. Supervision of apprentices and indentured learners

99. Training and supervision of inexperienced workers

100. Meals in certain dangerous trades

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Part XII – SPECIAL APPLICATIONS

104. Premises where part of building is separate workplace

105. Premises in which steam boilers are used

106. Premises in which hoists or lifts are used

107. Platforms erected over water

Part XIII – OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

108. Offences

109. General penalty

110. Court may order cause of contravention to be remedied

111. Penalty in case of death or injury

112. Forgery, false declaration, etc.

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Part XIV – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

121. Posting of abstract of Act, rules and notices

122. General register

123. Preservation of registers and records

124. Return of persons employed

125. Approval of plans of workplace premises

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FIRST SCHEDULE

SECOND SCHEDULE

THIRD SCHEDULE

1. Tenure of office

2. Vacation of office

3. Meetings

4. Disclosure of interest

5. Minutes

FOURTH SCHEDULE

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FIFTH SCHEDULE

SIXTH SCHEDULE

SEVENTH SCHEDULE

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EIGHTH SCHEDULE

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REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2007

Act 15 of 2007

Assented to on 22 October 2007
Commenced on 26 October 2007
[This is the version of this document from 26 October 2007.]

An Act of Parliament to provide for the safety, health and welfare of workers and all persons lawfully present at workplaces, to provide for the establishment of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health and for connected purposes

Part I – PRELIMINARY

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2007.

2. Interpretation

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—“air pollution” means air contaminated by substances whatever their physical state, which are harmful to health or otherwise dangerous;“article for use at work” means—(a)any plant designed for use or operation (whether exclusively or not) by persons at a workplace; and(b)any article designed for use as a component in such plant;“biological monitoring” means a planned programme of periodic co…

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REPUBLIC OF KENYA

Occupational Safety and Health Act, 2007

Act 15 of 2007

Part I – PRELIMINARY

1. Short title

2. Interpretation

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