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The Shipbuilding and Ship-repairing Regulations 1960

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PART IXTRAINING AND SUPERVISION

Young persons

80.—(1) No young person shall, until he has been employed in a shipyard or shipyards for at least six months, be employed in connection with the operations in a shipyard on a stage from which, or in any part of a ship where, he is liable to fall a distance of more than six feet six inches, or into water in which there is a risk of drowning.

(2) Any young person under the age of sixteen shall, when employed in the operations in a shipyard, be placed under the charge of an experienced workman.

Safety supervision

81.—(1) In the case of every shipyard other than a public dry dock, being a shipyard where the number of persons employed regularly or from time to time exceeds five hundred, a person experienced in the work of such yards shall be appointed and employed exclusively to exercise general supervision of the observance of these Regulations and to promote the safe conduct of the work generally.

(2) This Regulation shall not be construed as preventing two or more employers from jointly appointing the same person or persons to perform some or all of the aforesaid duties for those employers.

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