Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (SAFETY OFFICERS AND SAFETY SUPERVISORS) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5

Qualifications for registration as safety officer

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

(1) A person who holds a scheduled qualifications specified in the first
column of the Second Schedule is qualified to be registered as a
safety officer for the purposes of employment at the class of industrial
undertaking indicated opposite thereto in the second column of the Second
Schedule.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) and the Second Schedule, "scheduled
qualification" (附表所列資格) means any of the qualifications set out in
the Third Schedule.

(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) and the Second Schedule, a person who
satisfies the Commissioner for Labour that-

   (a)  immediately before the making of these regulations he was employed as
        a safety officer in an industrial undertaking to which these
        regulations apply; and

   (b)  by reason of his education, training, professional experience and
        skill in industrial safety he is a fit and proper person to be
        registered as a safety officer, shall be deemed to be qualified to be
        registered as a safety officer for the purposes of employment in an
        industrial undertaking. (Enacted 1986)
"scheduled   qualification" (附表所列資格)