Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (ASBESTOS) REGULATION - SECT 5

Assessment of work

(Past version on 01/09/1997).

PART II

IDENTIFICATION, ASSESSMENT AND NOTIFICATION

(1) A proprietor shall before carrying out any work which exposes or is liable
to expose any workman to asbestos ensure that an adequate assessment of
exposure or the likely exposure has been made by a person who by reason of his
training and experience is competent to make that assessment.

(2) The assessment shall-

   (a)  (i) identify the type of asbestos to which any workman is or is liable
        to be exposed by analysis or otherwise; or

        (ii)   without performing the identification, assume that the asbestos
               involved is not chrysotile alone;

   (b)  determine the nature and degree of exposure or the likely exposure;
        and

   (c)  set out the steps that may be taken to prevent the exposure or to
        reduce it to the lowest level reasonably practicable.

(3) The proprietor shall keep a written record of the assessment and shall, on
being requested by an occupational safety officer, produce the record for
inspection. (32 of 2000 s. 48)

(4) A proprietor shall ensure that a further assessment is made under
subsection (1) when-

   (a)  there is reason to suspect that the existing assessment is no longer
        valid; or

   (b)  there is a significant change in the work to which the existing
        assessment relates.