Hong Kong Regulations

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

Qualifications for registration as safety officer

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(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 these regulations become applicable to a class of
        industrial undertaking, he was employed as a full time safety  officer
        in that class of industrial undertaking; and (L.N. 100 of 2002)

   (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 that
        class of industrial undertaking. (L.N. 100 of 2002) (Enacted 1986)

"scheduled qualification" (附表所列資格)