Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (CARCINOGENIC SUBSTANCES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 8

Medical examinations

(1) Every person who is or has been employed in any industrial undertaking in
any manufacture, process or work referred to in regulation 5 shall be
medically examined by the appointed medical practitioner within one month of
being first so employed and be so examined again at intervals of not more than
6 months so long as his employment in the industrial undertaking continues:
Provided that in the case of a person so employed at the date of the coming
into operation of these regulations, his first medical examination under this
regulation shall be within one month of that date.

(2) Every medical examination under paragraph (1) shall include exfoliative
cytology of the urine by a laboratory of the Institute of Pathology of the
Department of Health. (L.N. 76 of 1989)

(3) Every person who is or has been employed in an industrial undertaking in
any manufacture, process or work referred to in regulation 5 shall submit
himself for medical examination by the appointed medical  practitioner as
required under this regulation and provide samples of urine as necessary so
that the requirements of paragraph (2) may be complied with.

(4) For the purpose of this regulation the expression "first so employed"
(首次如此受僱) includes re-employment in any industrial undertaking to
which this Part applies following a cessation of such employment for any
period exceeding 6 months.

(5) The cost of medical examinations required by this regulation shall be
borne by the proprietor of the industrial undertaking concerned. (Enacted
1986)

"first so employed" (首次如此受僱)