As far as I am aware there is no specific regulation. Indeed, in many working environments there would be no problem in wearing jewellry. Just imagine an office of a large international consortium with many PAs, etc. Trying to ban jewellry there would be both unnecessary and probably cause considerable problems with personnel! Whether you permit jewellry or not will depend upon your risk assessment as to whether wearing jewellry constitutes a potential cause for injury. In some environments where I have worked jewellry was not permitted as it could cause a different type of problem. I remember a case where a fitter working on an aircraft caught his watch strap on something. It snapped and the watch dropped into the aircraft. If I remember correctly it took two days of disassembling the equipment in the aircraft to recover the watch! In my work I visit many different sites. Depending upon the site I will remove my watch and in some cases my tie before entering the site. For the same reason I do not wear a wedding ring. So each situation will need to be evaluated individually. Chris

On building sites rings do cause problems with splinters getting trapped between finger and rings. Also 'digging' into the fingers if caught on objects, called 'De-gloving' as the skin is ripped off the finger and exposing flesh and bone. Ask the hospital A&E for further details