Garages

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11. Garages

11.1. General provisions

11.1.1. Garages for motor vehicles should:

be of fire-resistant construction;

be adequately ventilated; and

have at least one outside wall.

11.1.2. Electrical installations in garages should comply with

the relevant requirements of Chapter 17.

11.1.3. Heating installations in garages should have no open

flames or incandescent parts.

11.1.4. Inspection pits in garages should be:

accessible by means of safe steps; and

when not in use, provided with safe covers or perimeter bar-

ricades or guard-rails or toe-boards.

11.1.5. Garage floors should have a drainage system such

that:there is a trap for petrol (gasoline) and oil; and

the trap can be emptied easily.

11.1.6. Drain traps should be emptied at suitable intervals.

11.1.7. Large quantities of fuel and oil should not be stored

in garages.

11.1.8. Special precautions should be taken when work that

involves welding or the generation of sparks is carried out in

garages; in particular the relevant requirements of Chapter 28

should be complied with.

11.1.9. Oily and greasy waste should be kept in a self-closing

metal receptacle.

11.1.10. At an easily accessible place in a garage there should

be kept in readiness for use:

suitable fire-extinguishing equipment; or

an adequate quantity of dry sand and a shovel.

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