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10.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Executive may, by a certificate in writing, exempt any person or class of persons from regulation 6(4) in respect of whole-body vibration in the case of air transport, where the latest technical advances and the characteristics of the workplace do not permit compliance with the exposure limit value despite the technical and organisational measures taken, and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked by a certificate in writing at any time.
(2) The Executive shall not grant any such exemption unless—
(a)it consults the employers and the employees or their representatives concerned;
(b)the resulting risks are reduced to as low a level as is reasonably practicable; and
(c)the employees concerned are subject to increased health surveillance, where such surveillance is appropriate within the meaning of regulation 7(2).
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