Hong Kong Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION - SECT 23

Responsible person to make preliminary assessment of risks

(1) Before manual handling operations are first undertaken at a workplace
after the commencement of this Part, the person responsible for the workplace
must ensure that a preliminary assessment is made of the risks to the safety
and health of employees employed at the workplace who undertake those
manual handling operations.

(2) If manual handling operations were being undertaken at a workplace
immediately before the commencement of this Part and those
manual handling operations are also undertaken on or after that commencement,
the person responsible for the workplace must, within 14 days after that
commencement, ensure that a preliminary assessment is made of the risks to the
safety and health of employees employed at the workplace who undertake those
manual handling operations.

(3) The person responsible for a workplace must conduct a review of a
preliminary assessment made in accordance with this section whenever-

   (a)  that person has reason to believe that the assessment is no longer
        valid; or

   (b)  the circumstances in which the assessment was made have significantly
        changed.

(4) As soon as practicable after reviewing a preliminary assessment in
accordance with subsection (3), the person responsible for the workplace must
vary the assessment by making such modifications to it as are indicated to be
required upon the review.

(5) A person responsible for a workplace who fails to comply with subsection
(1), (2), (3) or (4) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine
of $200000.