Hong Kong Regulations

CONSTRUCTION SITES (SAFETY) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 2

Interpretation

(Past version on 01/10/1999).
(Past version on 30/06/1997).



"builder's lift" (建築工地升降機)

"competent examiner" (合資格檢驗員)

"competent person" (合資格的人)

"construction site" (建築地盤)

"crane" (起重機)

"direct control" (直接控制)

"hoist" (吊重機)

"ladder" (梯子)

"lifting appliance" (起重機械)

"lifting gear" (起重裝置)

"maintained" (維修、保持)

"material" (物料)

"place of work" (工作地方)

"plant" (工業裝置)

"prime mover" (原動機)

"raising or lowering or as a means of suspension" (升降或作懸吊之用)

"safe working load" (安全操作負荷)

"safety belt" (安全帶)

"scaffold" (棚架)

"suspended working platform" (吊船)

"tower working platform" (塔式工作平台)

"transmission machinery" (傳動機械)

"used" or "in use" (用、使用)

"working platform" (工作平台)

"workman" (工人)

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-

"builder's lift" (建築工地升降機) has the same meaning as in the
Builders' Lifts  and Tower Working Platforms (Safety) Ordinance ( Cap 470);
(L.N. 552 of 1995)

"competent examiner" (合資格檢驗員), in relation to the carrying out of
any test and examination required by these regulations, means a person who is-

   (a)  appointed for that purpose by the contractor required by these
        regulations to ensure that the test and examination is carried out;
        (L.N. 285 of 1993)

   (b)  a registered professional engineer registered under the
        Engineers Registration Ordinance ( Cap 409) within a relevant
        discipline specified by the Commissioner; and (L.N. 285 of 1993)

   (c)  by reason of his qualifications, training and experience, competent to
        carry out the test and examination; (L.N. 285 of 1993)

"competent person" (合資格的人), in relation to any duty to be performed
under these regulations by a competent person, means a person who is-

   (a)  appointed for that purpose by the contractor required by these
        regulations to ensure that the duty is carried out by a
        competent person; and

   (b)  by reason of substantial training and practical experience, competent
        to perform the duty;

"construction site" (建築地盤) means a place where construction work is
undertaken and also any area in the immediate vicinity of any such place which
is used for the storage of materials or plant used or intended to be used for
the purpose of the construction work;

"crane" (起重機) means any appliance equipped with mechanical means of
raising and lowering a load and for transporting the load while suspended; and
also all chains, ropes, swivels, or other tackle (down to and including the
hook), used in the operation of a crane; but does not include-

   (a)  a hoist block running on a fixed rail or wire;

   (b)  a stacker or conveyor whereby a load is moved by means of a belt or
        platform; or

   (c)  an earth or mineral moving or excavating appliance not fitted with a
        grab;

"direct control" (直接控制), in relation to any construction work,
process, excavation, operation, or erection, substantial addition, alteration
or dismantling of scaffold, means control over the way the construction work,
process, excavation, operation, or erection, substantial addition, alteration
or dismantling of scaffold, as the case may be, is carried out;
(L.N. 258 of 2003)

"hoist" (吊重機) means a lifting machine, whether worked by mechanical
power or not, with a carriage, platform or cage, the movement of which is
restricted by a guide or guides; and also the supports, well and enclosures,
and the carriage, platform or cage, and the whole of the mechanical and
electrical apparatus (if any) required in connexion with the operation and
safety of a hoist, but does not include a builder's lift or a
tower working platform; (L.N. 280 of 1978; L.N. 552 of 1995)

"ladder" (梯子) includes a folding step-ladder; (L.N. 238 of 1983; L.N. 76
of 1999)

"lifting appliance" (起重機械) means a crab, winch, pulley block, or gin
wheel used for raising or lowering and a hoist, crane, sheerlegs, excavator,
drag line, pile driver, pile extractor, or overhead runway;

"lifting gear" (起重裝置) means a chain sling, rope sling or similar gear,
and a ring, link, hook, plate clamp, shackle, swivel or eyebolt; (L.N. 280 of
1978)

"maintained" (維修、保持) means maintained in an efficient state, in
efficient working order and in good repair;

"material" (物料), except in regulations 5, 29, 39 and 61, includes waste
material and debris;

"place of work" (工作地方) means any place which is used by any person for
the purposes of-

   (a)  construction work; or

   (b)  any work activities arising from, or in connection with, construction
        work, and includes any place to which such a person has access whilst
        at work; (L.N. 76 of 1999)

"plant" (工業裝置) includes any plant, equipment, gear, machinery,
apparatus, or appliance, or any part thereof;

"prime mover" (原動機) means any engine, motor, or other appliance, which
provides mechanical energy derived from-

   (a)  steam or electricity;

   (b)  the combustion of fuel; or

   (c)  any other source;

"raising or lowering or as a means of suspension" (升降或作懸吊之用)
means raising  or lowering or as a means of suspension of a load on a
lifting appliance or lifting gear;

"safe working load" (安全操作負荷), in relation to a lifting appliance
or to lifting gear, means either-

   (a)  the appropriate safe working load for operating the appliance or gear
        as specified in the current certificate of test given in the approved
        form by a competent examiner in respect of the appliance or gear for
        the purposes of these regulations; or (L.N. 21 of 1994)

   (b)  where no such certificate is required, the relevant safe  working load
        appropriate to the lifting appliance or lifting gear; (L.N. 280 of
        1978)

"safety belt" (安全帶) includes a safety harness; (L.N. 76 of 1999)

"scaffold" (棚架) means any temporarily provided structure on or from which
persons perform work in connexion with operations or works to which these
regulations apply, and any temporarily provided structure which enables
persons to obtain access to or which enables materials to be taken to any
place at which such work is performed, and includes any working platform,
gangway, run, ladder or step-ladder (other than an independent ladder or
step-ladder which does not form part of such a structure) together with any
guard-rail, toe-board or other safeguards and all fixings, but does not
include a lifting appliance or a structure used merely to support such an
appliance or to support other plant or equipment; (L.N. 238 of 1983)

"suspended working platform" (吊船) means a suspended working platform
within the meaning of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Suspended 
Working Platforms) Regulation ( Cap 59 sub. leg. AC); (L.N. 76 of 1999)

"tower working platform" (塔式工作平台) has the same meaning as in the
Builders'  Lifts and Tower Working Platforms (Safety) Ordinance ( Cap 470);
(L.N. 552 of 1995)

"transmission machinery" (傳動機械) means any shaft, wheel, drum, pulley,
system of fast and loose pulleys, coupling, clutch, driving belt, or other
device, by which the motion of a prime mover is transmitted to or received by
any plant;

"used" or "in use" (用、使用), in relation to any plant, means used or
in use in construction work;

"working platform" (工作平台) includes a working stage; (L.N. 238 of 1983)

"workman" (工人) means a person engaged in construction work.

(2) For the purposes of these regulations-

   (a)  a contractor is responsible for a construction site if he is
        undertaking construction work there or, where there is more than one
        contractor undertaking construction work at the site, if he is the
        principal contractor undertaking work there;

   (b)  a contractor is responsible for any plant referred to in these
        regulations if it is located at a construction site for which he is
        responsible. (L.N. 76 of 1999; L.N. 258 of 2003)