Section 20

to ensure, so far as is practicable, that the plant is so designed and constructed as to be safe and without risks to health when properly used;

to carry out or arrange for the carrying out of such testing and examination as may be necessary for the performance of the duty imposed on him by paragraph (a);

to take such steps as are necessary to secure that there will be available in connection with the use of the plant at work adequate information about the use for which it is designed and has been tested, and about any condition necessary to ensure that, when put to that use, it will be safe and without risks to health;

to take such steps as are necessary to secure, so far as is practicable, that the persons supplied with the plant are provided with all such revisions of information provided to

*NOTE—Previously “fifty thousand”–see paragraph 17(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health

(Amendment) Act 2022 [Act A1648].

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Law of Malaysia them under paragraph (c) as are necessary by reason of it becoming known that there is a new risk that could give rise to a serious risk to safety or health.

It shall be the duty of a person who undertakes the design or manufacture of any plant for use at work to carry out or arrange for the carrying out of any necessary research with a view to the discovery and, so far as is practicable, the elimination or minimization of any risk to safety or health to which the design or plant may give rise.

It shall be the duty of a person who erects or installs any plant for use by persons at work to ensure, so far as is practicable, that nothing about the way in which it is erected or installed makes it unsafe or a risk to health when properly used.

General duties of manufacturers, etc., as regards substances for use at work