Hong Kong Regulations

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATION - SECT 7

Responsibilities of responsible person with respect to means of egress from workplace

PART III

FIRE PRECAUTIONS

(1) The person responsible for a workplace must ensure that, while the
workplace is in use, all doors that provide egress from the workplace are kept
unlocked or are otherwise fastened in such a manner that they can easily be
opened from inside the workplace.

(2) The person responsible for a workplace located in a building

(being a building with a plan or plans approved by the Building Authority
under Part II of the Buildings Ordinance ( Cap 123)) must ensure that an
illuminated exit sign bearing the word "EXIT" and the characters "出口" is
installed, in accordance with a Code of Practice published from time to time
by the Director of Fire Services, at each exit from the workplace.

(3) A person responsible for a workplace who fails, without reasonable excuse,
to comply with subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence and is liable on
conviction to a fine of $200000.

(4) If a person responsible for a workplace is found guilty of having
committed an offence under subsection (3) and it is proved that the person
committed the offence intentionally, knowingly or recklessly, the court may,
in addition to or instead of imposing the penalty prescribed by that
subsection, sentence the person to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6
months.

(5) For the purposes of subsection (2), exit from a workplace is the exit
shown on the approved plan or plans of the building in which the workplace is
located as referred to in that subsection.