FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (BLASTING BY ABRASIVES) SPECIAL REGULATIONS
- CHAPTER 59C

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (BLASTING BY ABRASIVES) SPECIAL REGULATIONS - LONG TITLE  
Empowering section VerDate:30/06/1997



(Cap 59, section 7(2) & (5))
 
[28 February 1969]

(L.N. 35 of 1969)



FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (BLASTING BY ABRASIVES) SPECIAL REGULATIONS - REGULATION 1
Citation VerDate:30/06/1997



These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial 
Undertakings (Blasting by Abrasives) Special Regulations.



FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (BLASTING BY ABRASIVES) SPECIAL REGULATIONS - REGULATION 2
Interpretation VerDate:30/06/1997



In these regulations "blasting process" (噴砂工序) means the cleaning, 
smoothing, roughening or removing of part of the surface of any substance 
or thing including granite, stone or brick by the use as an abrasive of a 
jet of sand, metal shot or grit or other material propelled by a blast of 
compressed air or steam or water or by a wheel.
"blasting process" (噴砂工序)


FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (BLASTING BY ABRASIVES) SPECIAL REGULATIONS - REGULATION 3
Restriction on use of sand or free silica as an abrasive in a blasting process VerDate:04/09/1998




(1)	Except as provided in paragraph (2), no person shall, in any 
industrial undertaking, use sand or other material containing free silica 
as an abrasive in any blasting process.  (L.N. 158 of 1978)

(2)	If the Commissioner for Labour, or any officer authorized in 
writing by him, is satisfied that in any industrial undertaking the use of 
sand or any other material containing free silica as an abrasive in a 
blasting process (other than a process incidental or supplemental to the 
making of metal castings) is necessary in any particular case, he may by 
certificate in writing (which he may in his discretion revoke at any time) 
permit the use of the sand or other material containing free silica in 
that blasting process subject to the following conditions-

        (a)	that there shall be provided and maintained for the use of 
every person who is employed in that blasting process a protective helmet 
of a type approved in writing by the Commissioner or by any officer 
authorized in writing by the Commissioner for Labour designed to enclose 
the head, face and neck of such person and every such person shall wear 
the helmet provided for his use whilst he is employed in that blasting 
process; and

        (b)	that every person employed in that blasting process shall, 
whilst so employed, be supplied with clean fresh air at a rate of not less 
than 170 litres per minute from a source removed from that blasting 
process,  (L.N. 238 of 1984; L.N. 307 of 1998)
and such other conditions as the Commissioner for Labour, or any officer 
authorized in writing by him, may in his discretion specify in the 
certificate.

(3)	Any person who uses sand or any other material containing free 
silica as an abrasive in a blasting process in contravention of paragraph 

(1) shall be guilty of an offence.  (L.N. 315 of 1981)

(4)	A person who is guilty of an offence under paragraph (3) shall-

        (a)	if he is a proprietor, be liable on conviction to a fine of 
$50000; and  (L.N. 15 of 1994)

        (b)	if he is a person other than a proprietor, be liable on 
conviction to a fine of $10000.  (L.N. 315 of 1981)