Hong Kong Regulations

QUARRIES (SAFETY) REGULATIONS

- CHAPTER 59F

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Citation
   2.      Interpretation
   3.      Application for approval as supervisor
   4.      Grounds for approval of supervisor
   5.      Application for approval as deputy supervisor
   6.      Grounds for approval of deputy supervisor
   7.      Commissioner to serve notice of decision on applicant
   8.      Approval to be withdrawn on request
   9.      Proprietor to give notice of termination of employment of supervisor
           or deputy supervisor
   10.     Grounds on which approval of supervisor or deputy supervisor may be
           withdrawn
   11.     Time limit for appeal
   11A.    Operation of decision in case of appeal
   12.     Powers of Chief Executive on appeal
   13.     Permission for supervisor or deputy supervisor to continue to act
           pending appeal
   14.     Registers to be kept in quarry
   15.     Quarry to be fenced
   16.     Warning notices
   17.     Proprietor to provide safety helmets
   18.     Proprietor to provide safety rope or harness
   19.     Certain number of workers to be trained in first aid
   20.     Proprietor to deliver to Commissioner for Labour particulars of
           persons trained in first aid
   21.     First aid equipment to be kept in quarry
   22.     First aid equipment to be kept in box or cupboard
   23.     Proprietor to designate person in charge of first aid box or
           cupboard
   24.     Stretcher to be kept alongside first aid box or cupboard
   25.     No work to be carried on except under sole supervision of
           supervisor or deputy supervisor
   26.     Supervisor on duty to complete daily entry in Time Register
   27.     Persons not to work in quarry without sufficient instruction or
           training
   28.     Supervisor on duty to inspect working places periodically
   29.     Supervisor on duty to prohibit entry to dangerous place or road
   30.     Inspection report
   31.     Offence to enter dangerous place or road in contravention of
           prohibition
   32.     Worker to carry out periodic inspections of working place
   33.     Supervisor on duty to inspect working place reported to be unsafe
   34.     Inspection report
   35.     Offence to enter unsafe place in contravention of prohibition
   36.     Safety helmet to be worn for certain work
   37.     Safety rope or harness to be worn for certain work
   38.     Supervisor on duty to inspect equipment periodically
   39.     Supervisor on duty to prohibit use of unsafe or inefficient
           equipment
   40.     Inspection report
   41.     Offence to use unsafe or inefficient equipment in contravention of
           prohibition
   42.     Offence to use mechanical equipment without permission of supervisor
           on duty
   43.     Inexperienced person not to use mechanical equipment
   44.     Unlicensed person not to use certain vehicles in quarry
   45.     Supervisor on duty not to permit mechanical equipment to be used at
           or near edges unless banksman present
   46.     Mechanical equipment not to be used at or near edges unless
           banksman present
   47.     Worker to report defect in equipment
   48.     Supervisor on duty to inspect reported defect in equipment
   49.     Inspection report
   50.     Offence to use defective equipment in contravention of prohibition
   51.     Offence to go under certain mechanical equipment
   52.     Manner in which work is to be executed
   53.     Overburden to be cleared back
   54.     Maximum height of face
   55.     Commissioner may permit work on face exceeding maximum height
   56.     Work on faces not to be carried on simultaneously where danger of
           falling objects
   57.     Accidents and dangerous occurrences
   58.     Penalties
   59.     Liability of proprietor
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2


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