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Regulation 5 Compatibility of personal protective equipmentI1

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

Every employer shall ensure that where the presence of more than one risk to health or safety makes it necessary for F1their worker to wear or use simultaneously more than one item of personal protective equipment, such equipment is compatible and continues to be effective against the risk or risks in question.

(2)

Every F2relevant self-employed person shall ensure that where the presence of more than one risk to health or safety makes it necessary for F3them to wear or use simultaneously more than one item of personal protective equipment, such equipment is compatible and continues to be effective against the risk or risks in question.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 5 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(h)

F2

Words in Regulations substituted (1.10.2015) by The Deregulation Act 2015 (Health and Safety at Work) (General Duties of Self-Employed Persons) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1637), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(2)

F3

Word in reg. 5 substituted (6.4.2022) by The Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/8), regs. 1, 6(g)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 5 in force at 1.1.1993, see reg. 1