Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (SAFETY OFFICERS AND SAFETY SUPERVISORS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 15

Duties of safety officer

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

(1) The duty of a person employed as a safety officer shall be to assist the
proprietor of the industrial undertaking in promoting the safety and health of
persons employed therein, including for that purpose-

   (a)  advising the proprietor as to measures to be taken in the interest of
        the safety and health of persons employed in the industrial
        undertaking and, with the approval of the proprietor, implementing
        such measures;

   (b)  inspecting the industrial undertaking, or directing any person
        employed as a safety supervisor therein to inspect the industrial
        undertaking for the purpose of determining whether or not there is any
        machinery, plant, equipment, appliance or process or any description
        of work carried on in the industrial undertaking which is of such a
        nature as to be liable to cause risk of bodily injury to any person
        employed in an industrial undertaking;

   (c)  reporting the findings of any inspection carried out under
        sub-paragraph (b) to the proprietor and recommending what measures, if
        any, ought to be taken as a result of that inspection;

   (d)  assisting in the supervision of any person employed as a safety 
        supervisor in the industrial undertaking;

   (e)  advising the proprietor in the interest of the safety and health of
        persons employed in the industrial undertaking of any repairs or
        maintenance that ought to be carried out in respect of-

        (i)    any premises comprising the industrial undertaking;

        (ii)   any appliance, equipment, machinery or plant in use in the
               industrial undertaking;

   (f)  investigating and reporting to the proprietor, or causing to be
        investigated and reported to the proprietor, the circumstances of any
        accident, or dangerous occurrence in the industrial undertaking and
        making recommendations to the proprietor to prevent similar accidents
        or dangerous occurrences;

   (g)  investigating and reporting to the proprietor, or causing to be
        investigated and reported to the proprietor, the circumstances of the
        suffering of any bodily injury by any person employed in the
        industrial undertaking and making recommendations to the proprietor to
        prevent similar suffering of any bodily injury;

   (h)  investigating and reporting to the proprietor every fatal accident in
        the industrial undertaking and making recommendations to the
        proprietor to prevent similar fatal accidents;

   (i)  receiving, discussing and countersigning every report submitted to him
        under regulation 17(1)(b)(iv) by a person employed as a safety 
        supervisor; and

   (j)  on or before the last day in every month preparing and submitting to
        the proprietor a report as provided in paragraph (2).

(2) A report submitted under paragraph (1)(j) shall be in the approved form.
(L.N. 352 of 1994) (Enacted 1986)