ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Occupational Safety and Health Act
71. Refrigeration plants
Edition: 2022-12-31 · In force
71. Refrigeration plants
(1)Every refrigeration plant capable of being entered by an employee shall—(a)have all control valves situated outside the cold storage room; and(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.(3)The occupier of a workplace in which a refrigeration plant specified in subsection (1) is in use, shall cause an approved person to examine, test and certify at least once in every period of twelve months the entire plant together with all its components and auxiliary parts.(4)A report of the examination shall be in the prescribed form containing the prescribed particulars, be signed by the person making the examination and shall, as soon as practicable and in any case within twenty-eight days of the completion of the examination, be entered in or attached to the general register.(5)In this section—“approved person” means any person who is approved by the Director, by certificate in writing for the purpose of carrying out examinations and tests of refrigeration plants in accordance with, and for the purposes of this section.