Hong Kong Regulations

CONSTRUCTION SITES (SAFETY) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 38K

Inspection of scaffolds

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the contractor responsible for a scaffold shall
ensure that the scaffold is not used on a construction site unless-

   (a)  the scaffold-

        (i)    has been inspected by a competent person within the immediately
               preceding month;

        (ii)   has been inspected by a competent person since exposure to
               weather conditions likely to have affected its strength or
               stability or to have displaced any part; and

   (b)  a report has been made by the person carrying out the inspection in
        the approved form containing the prescribed particulars which includes
        a statement to the effect that the scaffold is in safe working order.
        (see First Schedule Form 12) (L.N. 285 of 1993)

(2) A report under this regulation of an inspection and the results thereof,
signed by the person carrying out the inspection, shall be-

   (a)  made in the prescribed form and contain the prescribed particulars;
        and

   (b)  delivered forthwith to the contractor concerned.

(3) This regulation shall not apply in relation to a scaffold no part of which
has been erected for more than a month, or a trestle scaffold or a scaffold
from no part of which a person is liable to fall a distance of more than 2
metres.