Hong Kong Regulations

QUARRIES (SAFETY) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 48

Supervisor on duty to inspect reported defect in equipment

(1) Every supervisor on duty in a quarry to whom a defect is reported under
regulation 47(1) or (2) shall forthwith inspect the defect.

(2) Where, on inspecting a reported defect under paragraph (1), the
supervisor on duty finds that it is causing or is likely to cause danger to
any person, he shall forthwith prohibit every person from operating or driving
the mechanical equipment or using the anchorage, safety rope, safety harness
or safety helmet, as the case may be, in the quarry until the defect has been
remedied. (L.N. 208 of 1973)

(3) Any supervisor on duty who contravenes paragraph (1) or (2) shall be
guilty of an offence.