Hong Kong Regulations Hong Kong Regulations
- CHAPTER 285B
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Report of bringing plant into use
4. Duty to have competent engineer in charge
5. Prohibition against removal or rendering useless any fencing, etc.
6. Inspection of plant
7. Power of mines officers to give directions
8. Duty to keep boilers, etc. in good condition and repair
9. Duty to fence off dangerous machinery Prohibition against repairing,
etc. when risk of personal injury exists
10. Prohibition against use of loose clothing
11. Friction clutches
12. Air compressors
13. Safety valves
14. Duty to fence off dangerous places Duty to post notices
15. Inspection of electrical installations
16. Power of Superintendent with regard to blasting
17. Power to sell and buy explosives
18. Prohibition against storing explosives in closed-down mine
19. Prohibition against storing explosives underground in excess of
estimated requirement
20. Prohibition against using explosives other than those supplied by
employer
21. Method of carrying and cutting explosives
22. Mine blasting certificate, and matters ancillary thereto
23. Duty of manager to retain certificate
24. Person entitled to blast, and his responsibility
25. Loose ground to be removed before drilling Working faces to be
examined
26. Duty of gang foreman to be the first to enter place of operations
27. Action to be taken when blasting takes place within 10 metres of
each other
28. Resumption of work after blasting
29. Validity of existing certificates
30. Prohibition against carbide, and exceptions
31. Angle of slope
32. Duty to station a safety man, and not to deposit spoil near edge
33. Power of Superintendent to require stepped benches to be cut into
mine face
34. Duty to protect surface where subsidence or cavities occur
35. Power to give directions, and duty to comply with them
36. Duty to fill in illegal excavations
37. Duty in respect of prospecting trenches and pits
38. Duty to protect disused shafts and mining entrances, etc.
39. Responsibility for old excavations
40. Prohibition against use of inflammable material, and duty in respect
of naked lights
41. Duty to provide satisfactory ladders and ways of exit
42. Duty to provide ladders in single shaft
43. Duty to fence off underground entrance to abandoned workings
44. Ladders
45. Prohibition against carrying tools, etc. in ladder way
46. Duty to fence off entrances to shafts and winzes
47. Prohibition against loose material near unprotected edges
48. Necessity to provide guides for bucket, cage or skip
49. Provision for workmen passing from one compartment to another
50. Prohibition against entering winding compartment
51. Sinking shafts
52. Duty to provide ladder ways in sinking shafts
53. Protection of persons in sinking shafts
54. Precautions to be taken in using windlasses, etc.
55. Necessity to provide signalling apparatus in shafts
56. Exemption in respect of prospecting shafts
57. Duty to fence underground entrances
58. Duty to provide protection against falling materials Duty to report
danger
59. Duty to secure unsafe workings, and to keep reserve of timber
60. Duty to provide safety pillars Power of Superintendent in respect of
pillars
61. Duty to examine disused workings before reopening
62. Ventilation requirement
63. Duty to take air measurement
64. Ventilation doors
65. Percussive drills
66. Duty to provide stationary lights
67. Duty to light places containing unfenced machinery
68. Prohibition against movement without lights
69. Duty to provide manholes
70. Duty to keep clear space between rails
71. Prohibition against riding on tubs
72. Duty as regards haulage appliances
73. Duty to provide runaway switches in certain cases
74. Duty in respect of haulage signals
75. Duty to keep record of employees
76. Duty to wear miners' hats of approved pattern
77. Requirements as to first aid equipment
78. Requirement as to persons with first aid certificates
79. Prohibition against sleeping in a mine
80. Prohibition against intoxication Power to arrest inebriates Limitation
in respect of intoxicating liquor
81. Prohibition against unauthorized persons
82. Requirement as to underground sanitation
83. Prohibition against passing danger signals
84. Prohibition against negligent behaviour
85. Duty to fence off, and to warn against injurious solutions
86. Maximum cyanide content of sand filling
87. Power as to disposal of slime
88. Duties of responsible persons
89. Responsibility for working
90. General responsibility
91. Manager's responsibility in relation to dangerous work
92. Responsibility of manager for safety and discipline
93. Duty of manager to comply with orders
94. Sanitation
95. Duty to enforce provisions regarding storage and supplies of
explosives, etc.
96. Duty to ensure adequate supply of materials and appliances
97. Duty to keep plans
98. Duty to deposit copies with the Mines Division, Civil Engineering
and Development Department
99. Power of Superintendent to require transverse sections of shafts
100. Power of Superintendent in respect of plans
101. Duty not to make plans public
102. Duty regarding abandonment of mine
103. Obligation to remedy any dangerous practice
104. Dangerous occurrences
105. Offences and penalties
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 3
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