Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (ASBESTOS) SPECIAL - REGULATION 14

Accommodation for protective clothing, etc.

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

Where a proprietor of an industrial undertaking who uses an asbestos process
provides respiratory protective equipment or protective clothing as required
by these regulations he shall-

   (a)  provide and maintain suitable accommodation, in a position
        conveniently accessible to the place where the asbestos process is
        used-

        (i)    for the use of persons putting on or taking off that
               respiratory protective equipment or protective clothing; and

        (ii)   for the storage of the equipment and clothing when it is not in
               use;

   (b)  ensure that respiratory protective equipment and protective clothing
        is put on or taken off only in the accommodation provided under
        paragraph (a)(i);

   (c)  ensure that, except when it is necessary for it to be removed for
        cleaning or replacement, respiratory protective equipment and
        protective clothing provided by him is, when not being used, kept in
        the accommodation provided under paragraph (a)(ii);

   (d)  ensure that protective clothing provided for the use of any person is
        not used by any other person;

   (e)  provide and maintain suitable facilities for the cleaning of
        protective clothing; and

   (f)  ensure that all protective clothing provided under these regulations
        is cleaned after each occasion when it is used, in facilities provided
        under paragraph (e). (Enacted 1986)