Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 33

Ventilation

(1) In every notifiable workplace, effective and suitable provision shall be
made for securing and maintaining by the circulation of fresh air in each
workroom or, in the case of a mine, in each shaft, the adequate ventilation of
the room or shaft, and for rendering harmless, so far as practicable, all
fumes, dust and other impurities that may be injurious to health generated in
the course of any process or work carried on in the notifiable workplace.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), in every notifiable
workplace in which, in connexion with any process or work carried on, there is
given off any dust or fume or other impurity of such a character and to such
extent as to be likely to be injurious or offensive to the persons employed,
or any substantial quantity of dust of any kind, all practicable steps shall
be taken to protect the persons employed against inhalation of the dust or
fume or other impurity and to prevent its accumulating in any workroom, and in
particular, where the nature of the process makes it practicable, exhaust
appliances shall be provided and maintained, as near as possible to the point
of origin of the dust or fume or other impurity, so as to prevent its entering
the air of any workroom. (71 of 1989 s. 13)

(50 of 1985 s. 9)