The Safety, Health and Environment National Authority (SHENA) would like to remind all principals, occupiers, employers and self-employed persons who are lift owners or persons responsible for the safe operation of any lift that is used to carry goods or passengers, of their legal responsibilities under the Workplace Safety Health Order (WSHO), 2009 and regulations made thereunder. This WSHN also provides recommendations and lessons learnt from two fatal incidents involving the use of makeshift lifts to avoid similar incidents from recurring. In April of this year, a fatality occurred when a worker fell, from a height of approximately 4 m, together with the makeshift cargo lift and its load. This workplace fatality is still under investigation.

This Radiation Technical Note serves to update stakeholders who have dealings and engagements with radiation matters under the Safety, Health and Environment National Authority (SHENA). In its continuous effort to streamline the regulatory framework on radiation matters in Brunei Darussalam, SHENA hereby publishes the Classification of Radiation Workplaces Area Guideline which can be found on the SHENA website.

This document serves as an additional guideline for the use of Radiation Licensees or Radiation Protection Officers to determine the area classification of workplaces involving ionising radiation exposure in Brunei Darussalam. This is also to further supplement Part 5: Monitoring Programme of the Guideline on Radiation Protection Programme (RPP) Requirements (Rev.1) as published on the SHENA official website.