Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 25

Cleaning of dangerous machinery by young persons

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) No young person shall be permitted to clean any dangerous part of the
machinery in a notifiable workplace while the machinery is in motion by the
aid of any mechanical power. For the purpose of this paragraph, such parts of
the machinery shall be presumed to be dangerous as are notified by an
occupational safety officer to the proprietor of the notifiable workplace. (50
of 1985 s. 9; 32 of 2000 s. 48)

(2) No young person shall be permitted to clean any mill-gearing while such
mill-gearing is in motion for the purpose of propelling any part of the
machinery in a notifiable workplace. (L.N. 302 of 1996)