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Workplace Health, Safety and Welfare Regulations
NI-wide·Technical Booklet V Glazing
The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 (the Workplace Regulations) contain some requirements which affect building design. The main requirements are now covered
glazingworkplacenon-domesticWorkplace Regulations applicability to common parts of flats
NI-wide·Technical Booklet V Glazing
The Workplace Regulations apply to the common parts of flats and similar buildings if people such as cleaners, wardens and caretakers are employed to work in these common parts. Where the requirements
flatsnon-domesticcommon-partsTransparent glazing
97NI-wide·Technical Booklet V Glazing
97. Transparent glazing, of which people may otherwise be unaware and with which they are likely to collide while in passage in or about a building, shall incorporate features which make it apparent.
glazingnon-domesticpublic-buildingcommercialindustrialCompliance with Regulation 98 – window opening and adjustment
1.5NI-wide·Technical Booklet V Glazing
Compliance with regulation 98 in Part V would in accordance with Section 25(3) of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, prevent an improvement notice being served, with regard t
glazingnon-domesticworkplaceCompliance with Regulation 99 – window and skylight cleaning
1.6NI-wide·Technical Booklet V Glazing
Compliance with regulation 99 in Part V would in accordance with Section 25(3) of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, prevent an improvement notice being served, with regard t
glazingnon-domesticworkplaceControls in guest bedrooms - compliance with Part R
4.6NI-wide·Technical Booklet V Glazing
Within a guest bedroom in a building other than a dwelling, a control used for opening and closing a window as required by Part R, will need to meet requirements in that part which are additional to t
glazingnon-domesticaccessCleaning glazing from the outside - access and safety provisions
Diagram 5.2NI-wide·Technical Booklet V Glazing
height to window sill more than 6 m and not more than 9 m above standing surface; window not more than 9 m; suitable standing surface; optimum slope of ladder 1:4; eyebolt fixing to secure stile of la
glazingexternal-spaceprotection-from-fallingnon-domestic