FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 23 Hoists and lifts general.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 23

Hoists and lifts general.

23.(1) Every hoist or lift shall be of good mechanical construction, sound
material and adequate strength, and shall be properly maintained.

(2) Every hoist or lift shall be thoroughly examined by a competent person at
least once in every period of six months and a report of the result of every
such examination in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed
particulars shall be signed by the person making the examination and shall
within twenty-eight days be entered in or attached to the general register.

(3) Where the examination shows that the hoist or lift cannot continue to be
used with safety unless certain repairs are carried out immediately or within
a specified time, the person making the report shall within twenty-eight days
of the completion of the examination send a copy of the report to the chief
inspector.

(4) Every hoistway or liftway shall be efficiently protected by a substantial
enclosure fitted with gates, and the enclosure shall be such as to prevent,
when the gates are shut, any person falling down the way or coming into
contact with any moving part of the hoist or lift.

(5) Any such gate shall, subject to subsection (6) and to section 26, be
fitted with efficient interlocking or other devices to secure that the gate
cannot be opened except when the cage or platform is at the landing and that
the cage or platform cannot be moved away from the landing until the gate is
closed.

(6) If in the case of a hoist or lift constructed or reconstructed before the
24th November 1938, it is not reasonably practicable to fit it with such
devices as are mentioned in subsection (5), it shall be sufficient if the gate

(a)is provided with such arrangements as will secure the objects of that
subsection so far as is reasonably practicable, and

(b)is kept closed and fastened except when the cage or platform is at rest at
the landing.

(7) Every hoist or lift and every such enclosure as is mentioned in subsection
(4) shall be so constructed as to prevent any part of any person or any goods
carried in the hoist or lift from being trapped between any part of the hoist
or lift and any fixed structure or between the counterbalance weight and any
other moving part of the hoist or lift.

(8) There shall be marked conspicuously on every hoist or lift the maximum
working load which it can safely carry, and no load greater than that load
shall be carried on any hoist or lift.

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FACTORIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 23