Hong Kong Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION - SECT 27

Responsible person to reduce risks and make arrangements for preventive and protective measures

(1) The person responsible for a workplace must, before any manual 
handling operations which may create safety and health risks are undertaken by
employees employed at the workplace, ensure that-

   (a)  appropriate steps are taken to reduce risks to the safety and health
        of the employees employed at the workplace who undertake those
        manual handling operations to the lowest level that is reasonably
        practicable; and

   (b)  the employees referred to in paragraph (a) are provided with relevant
        information as to the weight of each load and the heaviest side of
        each load whose centre of gravity is not centrally positioned; and

   (c)  the employees referred to in paragraph (a) are provided with such
        mechanical aids and protective equipment as will secure their safety
        and health while undertaking those manual handling operations; and

   (d)  when any of those manual handling operations involves the lifting of a
        load, the manual handling operation is, if reasonably practicable to
        do so, undertaken by a team of employees.

(2) The person responsible for a workplace must, having regard to the nature
of the activities carried out at and the size of the workplace, make
arrangements for preventive and protective measures, including but not limited
to those measures referred to in subsection (1), to be taken with respect to
the manual handling operations which may create safety and  health risks
undertaken at the workplace and for the effective planning, organization,
control, monitoring and review of those preventive and  protective measures.

(3) A person responsible for a workplace who fails to comply with subsection
(1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $200000
except that, in the case of an offence against subsection

(1) where only paragraph (d) of that subsection is the subject of the failure,
is liable on conviction to a fine at level 6.