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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-electromagnetic-fields-at-work-regulations-2016/regulation-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/588",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-electromagnetic-fields-at-work-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Obligation to eliminate or reduce risks",
  "text": "(1) The employer must ensure that, so far as is reasonably practicable, the risks identified in the most recent risk assessment under regulation 8 are eliminated or reduced to a minimum.\n(2) Measures taken under paragraph (1) must—\n(a) be based on the general principles of prevention set out in Schedule 1 to the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999; and\n(b) take into account technical progress, the potential to restrict access to parts of the workplace, and the availability of measures to control the production of electromagnetic fields at source.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 1.7.2016, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/3242, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/588/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:23:24.357811+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}