Y

SN

SECTIO
N

50

NAME

Chains, Ropes
and Lifting
Tackles

INSPECTED
BY

Competent
person

FREQUENC
Y

REMARKS
1. No chain, rope or lifting tackle shall be used unless it is of
substantial construction, sound material, adequate strength
and free from any defect.
2. No chain, rope other than fibre rope and fibre rope slings,
or lifting tackle shall be taken into use for the first time in
any place of work unless it has been tested and examined by
a competent person, and a report of such test and
examination, specifying the safe working load and signed by
the competent person is obtained and kept available for
inspection.

12 Months

No chain, rope or lifting tackle shall be used for raising,

lowering or suspending any load exceeding the safe working
load specified by the manufacturer, except by a competent
person for testing purposes.
3. Every chain, rope or lifting tackle shall bear a
distinguishing mark or number sufficient to identify it.
4. A register containing a record of the examination under
subsection (4) shall be kept by the employer in respect of all
such chains, ropes or lifting tackles.

SN

SECTIO
N

NAME

INSPECTED
BY

FREQUENC
Y

REMARKS
All parts and working gear, whether fixed or movable,
including the anchoring and fixing appliances, of every
crane or other lifting machine shall

51

Cranes and other

lifting machines

Registered
Machinery
Inspector

12 months

(a) be of good construction, sound material, adequate

strength and free

from patent defect, and shall be

properly maintained; and

(b) be thoroughly examined by a registered machinery
inspector at least once every 12 months.
No person under 18 years of age shall be employed to
operate any lifting machine driven by mechanical
power or to give signals to the operator of any such
machine.

SN

SECTIO
N

NAME

INSPECTED
BY

FREQUENC
Y

REMARKS
(a) Vehicle lift to be positioned in such a manner that any of its
moving parts is not less than 600 mm from the nearest fixed
structure;
(b) appropriate measures have been taken to prevent
bodily injury when the lift descends to its lowest level;

52

Vehicle lifts

Registered
Machinery
Inspector

(c) approaches to the lift does not exceed 20 degrees from

the horizontal, where applicable;
6 months

(d) every vehicle lift is provided with a readily accessible

and efficient safety device to prevent the fall of the vehicle
when raised;
(e) Efficient automatic devices are provided and
maintained on every vehicle lift to prevent its platform
from overrunning.
No person under 18 years of age shall be employed to
operate any vehicle lift.

SN

SECTIO
N

NAME

INSPECTED
BY

FREQUENC
Y

REMARKS
(a) efficient automatic devices shall be provided and
maintained to prevent the cage or platform from
overrunning;

53

Hoists and lifts

Registered
Machinery
Inspector

(b) every cage shall, on each side from which access is

afforded to a landing, be fitted with a gate, and in
connection with any such gate efficient devices shall be
provided to secure that, when persons or goods are in the
cage, the cage cannot be raised or lowered unless the gate
is closed and will come to rest when the gate is opened;
6 months

(c) the maximum number of persons or amount of load

that can safely be carried shall be marked conspicuously;
(d) where the platform or cage is suspended by rope or
chain, there shall be at least two ropes or chains
separately connected with the platform or cage, each rope
or chain and its attachments being capable of carrying the
whole weight of the platform or cage and its maximum
working load, and efficient devices shall be provided and
maintained which will support the platform or cage with
its maximum working load in the event of a breakage or
failure of the ropes or chains or any of their attachments.

SN

SECTIO
N
54

NAME

Escalators

INSPECTED
BY

FREQUENC
Y

REMARKS

Registered
Machinery
Inspector

6 months

Every escalator shall be provided with at least 2 (top &

bottom) readily accessible emergency stop controls.

SN

SECTIO
N

NAME

55,56,57

Steam boilers

INSPECTED
BY

FREQUENC
Y

Registered Boiler
Inspector

12 months

REMARKS

(1) Every part of every steam boiler shall be of good

construction, sound material, adequate strength and free
from patent defect and shall conform to the specifications of
the Mauritius Standards Bureau, if any.
(2) The devices referred to in subsection (2) (a) are
(a) a suitable safety valve, separate from and incapable of
being isolated by any stop-valve, which shall be so adjusted
as to prevent the boiler being worked at a pressure greater
than the maximum permissible working pressure and shall
be fixed directly to, or as close as practicable to the boiler;
(b) a suitable stop-valve connecting the boiler to the steam
pipe;
(c) a correct steam pressure gauge connected to the steam
space and easily visible, which shall indicate the pressure of
steam in the boiler and have marked on the face of the gauge
in a distinctive colour the maximum permissible working
pressure;
(d) at least one water gauge of transparent material to show
the water level in the boiler, and if the gauge is of the glass
tubular type and the working pressure of the boiler normally
exceeds 275 kilopascals fitted with an efficient guard which

does not obstruct the reading of the gauge.

(3) A lever-valve shall not be deemed a suitable safety valve

unless the weight is secured on the lever in the correct
position.

SN

SECTIO
N

NAME

INSPECTED
BY

FREQUENC
Y

REMARKS
(1) Every steam receiver and every part thereof and all its
fittings shall be of good construction, sound material,
adequate strength and free from patent defect, and shall be
properly maintained.
(2) Every steam receiver, not so constructed and maintained
as to withstand with safety the maximum permissible
working pressure of the boiler or the maximum pressure
which can be obtained in the pipe connecting the receiver
with any source of supply, shall be fitted with

58

Steam receivers
and containers

Registered Boiler
Inspector

24 months

(a) a suitable reducing valve or other suitable automatic

appliance to prevent the safe working pressure of the
receiver being exceeded;
(b) a suitable safety valve so adjusted as to permit the steam
to escape as soon as the safe working pressure is exceeded,
or a suitable appliance for cutting off automatically the
steam supply as soon as the safe working pressure is
exceeded;
(c) a correct steam pressure gauge, which shall indicate the
pressure of steam in the receiver;

58

Steam receivers
and containers

Registered Boiler
Inspector

24 months

(d) a suitable stop-valve; and

(e) except where only one steam receiver is in use, a plate
bearing a distinctive number which shall be easily visible.

(3) The safety valve and pressure gauge specified in

subsection (2) shall be fitted either on the steam receiver or
on the supply pipe between the receiver and the reducing
valve or other appliance to prevent the safe working
pressure being exceeded.
(4) For the purpose of subsection (2) other than paragraph
(e) thereof, any set of receivers supplied with steam through
a single pipe and forming part of a single machine may be
treated as one receiver, and for the purpose of the said
subsection, except paragraphs (d) and (e) thereof, any other
set of receivers supplied with steam through a single pipe
may be treated as one receiver but this subsection shall not
apply to any such set of receivers unless the reducing valve
or other appliance to prevent the safe working pressure
being exceeded is fitted on the said single pipe.
(5) Every steam container shall be so maintained as to
secure that the outlet is at all times kept open and free from
obstruction.

SN

SECTIO
N

NAME

INSPECTED
BY

FREQUENC
Y

REMARKS
(1) Every air receiver and every part thereof and all its
fittings shall be of good construction, sound material,
adequate strength and free from patent defect, and shall be
properly maintained.
(2) Every air receiver shall
(a) have marked upon it, so as to be clearly visible, the safe
working pressure;

59

Air receivers

Registered Boiler
Inspector

24 months

(b) in the case of a receiver connected with an air

compressing plant, either be so constructed as to withstand
with safety the maximum pressure which can be obtained
in the compressor, or be fitted with a suitable reducing
valve or other suitable appliance to prevent the safe
working pressure of the receiver being exceeded;
(c) be fitted with a suitable safety valve so adjusted as to
permit the air to escape as soon as the safe working
pressure is exceeded;
(d) be fitted with an accurate pressure gauge indicating the
pressure in the receiver and have marked on the face of the
gauge in a distinctive colour the safe working pressure.

59

Air receivers

Registered Boiler
Inspector

24 months

(e) be fitted with a suitable appliance for draining the

receiver other than a vessel specified in paragraphs (b) and
(d) in the definition of air receiver;

(f) be provided with a suitable manhole, hand hole or other

means which will allow the interior to be thoroughly
cleaned; and
(g) where there is more than one receiver in use in the place
of work, bear a distinguishing mark which shall be easily
visible.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (2), relating to safety
valves and pressure gauges, any set of air receivers
supplied with air through a single pipe may be treated as
one receiver but in the case where a suitable reducing valve
or other suitable appliance to prevent the safe working
pressure being exceeded is required to be fitted, this
subsection shall not apply unless the valve or appliance is
fitted on the said single pipe.
(4) Every air receiver shall be thoroughly cleaned and
examined at least once every 12 months except that in the
case of a receiver of solid drawn construction if it is so
constructed that the internal surface cannot be thoroughly
examined, a suitable hydraulic test of the receiver shall
be carried out in lieu of internal examination at least once
every 24 months

SECTIO
N

NAME

INSPECTED
BY

FREQUENC
Y

REMARKS

SN
Every refrigeration plant capable of being entered by an
employee shall
(a) have all control valves situated outside the cold storage
room; and

60

Refrigeration
plants

Registered Boiler
Inspector

12 months

(b) have all doors of the cold storage room capable of being
opened easily and quickly from the inside and outside.
(2) Every refrigeration plant which has a positive
displacement compressor shall be provided with
(a) an automatic pressure relief device for that compressor;
and
(b) a suitable pressure gauge to indicate the discharge
pressure from such plant.