Hong Kong Regulations

RADIATION (CONTROL OF IRRADIATING APPARATUS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 16

Recording of personal exposure to radiation

(1) The employer of any person employed in radiation work shall make
arrangements for and shall direct the wearing by such person of a suitable
personnel radiation monitoring device of a type approved by the Board, during
any period in which such person is liable to exposure to radiation.

(2) (a) Subject to subregulation (4A), where such person is employed in
radiation work in any industrial undertaking in a workplace which is
notifiable under the provisions of the Factories and Industrial 
Undertakings Ordinance ( Cap 59) the employer shall obtain at his own expense
the personnel radiation monitoring device referred to in subregulation (1)
through the Commissioner for Labour, or from a laboratory approved by the
Board, and shall arrange for the device, identified by reference to the wearer
thereof, to be returned to the Commissioner for Labour or to the laboratory,
as the case may be, for examination at such intervals as the Commissioner for
Labour may from time to time direct.

   (b)  Subject to subregulation (4A), where such person is employed in
        radiation work otherwise than in an industrial undertaking in a
        workplace which is notifiable under the provisions of the
        Factories and Industrial  Undertakings Ordinance ( Cap 59), the
        employer shall obtain at his own expense the
        personnel radiation monitoring device referred to in subregulation (1)
        through the Director of Health or from an approved  laboratory, and
        shall arrange for the device, identified by reference to the wearer
        thereof to be returned to the Director, or to the laboratory, as the
        case may be, for examination at such intervals as the Director may
        from time to time direct. (50 of 1985 s. 9; L.N. 76 of 1989)

(3) Whenever a personnel radiation monitoring device is returned for
examination to the Commissioner for Labour, the Director of Health or an
approved laboratory, as the case may be, the Commissioner, the Director, or
the person in charge of such laboratory shall cause the device to be examined
and shall so soon as may be thereafter issue to the employer who submitted the
device for examination a certificate certifying the dose of radiation received
as measured by the device. (L.N. 76 of 1989)

(4) Every employer to whom a certificate in accordance with the provisions of
subregulation (3) is issued shall forthwith cause the dose of radiation
indicated thereon to be entered in the register of employees required to be
kept in accordance with the provisions of regulation 15 against the name of
the employee by whom the personnel radiation  monitoring device was worn.
(L.N. 63 of 1970)

(4A) Notwithstanding subregulation (2), an employer may, with the approval in
writing of the Board, obtain at his own expense the personnel 
radiation monitoring device referred to in subregulation (1) otherwise than
through the Commissioner for Labour or Director of Health or from an
approved laboratory and shall in that case, cause at such intervals as the
Board may from time to time direct, the dose of radiation recorded by the
device to be entered in the register of employees required to be kept in
accordance with the provisions of regulation 15, against the name of the
employee by whom the device was worn. (L.N. 229 of 1985; L.N. 76 of 1989)

(5) Any employer who fails to comply with any of the provisions of
subregulation (1), (2) or (4) shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on
conviction to a fine of $15000. (L.N. 97 of 1970; L.N. 225 of 1990)

(6) Any person who fails or refuses to wear a suitable personnel 
radiation monitoring device when so directed by his employer in accordance
with the provisions of subregulation (1) shall be guilty of an offence and be
liable on conviction to a fine of $6000. (L.N. 225 of 1990) (L.N. 229 of 1985)