Hong Kong Regulations

EDUCATION REGULATIONS - REGULATION 21

Safety precautions

(Past version on 28/02/2003).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PART V

SCHOOL WORKSHOPS AND SCIENCE LABORATORIES

(1) The responsible person shall ensure that all necessary safety precautions
are adopted in school workshops and science laboratories and shall modify or
extend those precautions as the Permanent Secretary may require. (3 of 2003 s.
14; 27 of 2004 s. 71)

(2) The principal and (in the case of a school without IMC) supervisor shall
ensure that no instruction is given in the use of tools or the operation of
machines or in science experiments except by-

   (a)  a responsible teacher;

   (b)  (in the case of tools or machines) a workshop instructor employed in
        the school to assist a responsible teacher; or

   (c)  (in the case of science experiments) a laboratory technician employed
        in the school to assist a responsible teacher. (27 of 2004 s. 41)