Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (CARGO AND CONTAINER HANDLING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3

Access over docks, etc.

PART II

SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

(1) A proprietor shall ensure that every regular approach over a dock, quay or
wharf which persons employed have to use for going to or from a working place
and every working place is maintained with due regard to the safety of the
persons employed.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), a proprietor shall
ensure that all breaks, dangerous corners, and other dangerous parts or edges
of the dock, quay or wharf are, so far as practicable having regard to the
traffic and cargo handling operations, securely fenced so that the height of
the fence is in no place less than 750 millimetres, and that the fencing is
maintained in good condition ready for use. (L.N. 238 of 1984; 71 of 1989 s.
13)