These regulations stipulate general requirements on accommodation standards for nearly all workplaces. The regulations implemented European Union directive 89/654/EEC on minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace and repeal and supersede much of the Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963
People other than employers also have duties under these Regulations if they have control, to any extent, of a workplace. For example, owners, landlords or managing agents of business premises should ensure that common parts, common facilities, common services and means of access within their control comply with the Regulations.
Their duties are limited to matters which are within their control. For example, an owner who is responsible for the general condition of a lobby, staircase and landings, for shared toilets provided for tenants' use, and for maintaining ventilation plant, should ensure that those parts and plant comply with these Regulations. However, the owner is not responsible under these Regulations for matters outside their control, for example a spillage caused by a tenant or shortcomings in the day- to-day cleaning of sanitary facilities where this is the tenants' responsibility.
Tenants should co-operate sufficiently with each other, and with the landlord, to ensure that the requirements of the Regulations are fully met. The regulations impose requirements with respect to: Maintenance of premises (reg.5);
Ventilation of enclosed workplaces (reg.6);Maintenance of a "reasonable" temperature indoors and the provision of thermometers (reg.7);Lighting, including emergency lighting, with a presumption in favour of daylight (reg.8);Cleanliness of the workplace, furniture, furnishings and fittings; the ease of cleaning of floors, walls and ceilings; and the prevention of accumulation of waste (reg.9);Room dimensions and space in rooms unoccupied by persons, furniture, fittings or plant (reg.10, Sch.1/ Pt.I);Workstations, including those outdoors, and the provision of suitable seats (reg.11);The condition of floors (reg.12);Routes for pedestrians or vehicles (regs.12, 17);Protection from falling objects and from persons falling from a height or falling into a dangerous substance (reg.13);Material or guarding of windows and other transparent or translucent walls, doors or gates and to them being easily visible (regulation 14);The way in which windows, skylights or ventilators are opened and the position they are left in when open (reg.15);The ability to clean windows and skylights (reg.16);The construction of doors and gates, including the fitting of necessary safety devices (reg.18);Escalators and moving walkways (regulation 19);Sanitary conveniences (reg.20, Sch.1/ Pt.II);Washing facilities (reg.21);Supply of drinking water and of cups or other drinking vessels (reg.22);Suitable storage for clothing and of facilities for changing clothing (regs.23, 24); and Facilities for rest and for eating meals (reg.25).
Implement most provisions of the European Commission Workplace Directive (89/654/EEC) .
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