Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (NOISE AT WORK) REGULATION - SECT 3

Assessment of noise exposure

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

(1) Where a proprietor's employee is likely to be exposed to a
first action level or above or to a peak action level or above, the proprietor
shall ensure that a person who by reason of his training and experience is
competent to carry out a noise assessment makes a noise assessment which is
adequate for the purposes-

   (a)  of identifying which of his employees are likely to be so exposed; and

   (b)  of providing him with information with regard to the noise to which
        his employees may be exposed that will enable him to comply with his
        duties under sections 4, 6, 8 and 9(1).

(2) Where there has been a significant change in the work to which the
assessment relates or where the proprietor has reason to believe that the
assessment is no longer adequate for the purposes referred to in subsection
(1), the proprietor shall ensure that a further noise assessment is made under
subsection (1).

(3) The person who carried out the assessment shall prepare an assessment
report in the form, and containing the information, that the Commissioner may,
by notice in the Gazette, require.

(4) Within 28 days after completing an assessment the proprietor shall send a
copy of the assessment report to the Commissioner.

(5) The proprietor shall make the assessment report available at all
reasonable times for inspection by an inspector. (Enacted 1992)