### Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations 《工廠及工業經營規例》

18. Reports of dangerous occurrences
(1) Every dangerous occurrence which occurs in an industrial undertaking, whether any personal injury has been caused or not, shall be reported by the proprietor of the industrial undertaking within 24 hours of its occurrence— (L.N. 7 of 1975)
(a) in the case of an industrial undertaking other than a quarry, to an occupational safety officer; and (32 of 2000 s. 48)
(b) in the case of a quarry, to the Superintendent of Mines. (L.N. 29 of 1969)
(2) Every report made under this regulation shall be in writing, and in addition to any report required under regulation 17, and shall include particulars of the time of the occurrence of the accident, any damage to any building, machinery or plant in the industrial undertaking in which the accident occurred, and the circumstances in which the accident occurred. (L.N. 29 of 1969)

19. Application of regulations 17 and 18
The provisions of regulations 17 and 18 shall not be applicable in the case of any accident which is required to be reported under the provisions of section 47 of the Mining Ordinance (Cap. 285).
(L.N. 7 of 1975)

### Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations 《工廠及工業經營規例》

20. Power to take samples
(1) An occupational safety officer may at any time after informing the proprietor or, if the proprietor is not readily available, a foreman or other responsible person in the industrial undertaking, take for analysis sufficient samples of any material in use or mixed for use in a dangerous trade or scheduled trade, or of any substance used or intended to be used in an industrial undertaking being a substance which he thinks may prove on analysis to be likely to cause bodily injury to the person employed. (32 of 2000 s. 48)
(2) The proprietor or the foreman or other responsible person aforesaid may, at the time when a sample is taken under this regulation, and on providing the necessary appliances, require the occupational safety officer to divide the sample into 3 parts, to mark and seal or fasten up each part in such manner as its nature permits, and— (32 of 2000 s. 48)
(a) to deliver one part to the proprietor, or the foreman or other responsible person aforesaid;
(b) to retain one part for future comparison; and
(c) to submit one part to the Government Chemist for analysis.
(3) A certificate purporting to be a certificate by the Government Chemist as to the result to an analysis of a sample under this regulation shall in any proceedings under the Ordinance be admissible as evidence of the matters stated therein, but either party may require the person by whom the analysis was made to be called as a witness.
(4) No person shall, except in so far as is necessary for the purposes of a prosecution for an offence under the Ordinance, publish or disclose to any person the results of an analysis made under this regulation.

21. Duties of persons employed
(1) No person employed in an industrial undertaking shall wilfully interfere with or misuse any means, appliance, convenience or other thing provided in pursuance of the Ordinance for securing the health, safety or welfare of the persons employed in the industrial undertaking, and where any means or appliance for securing health or safety is provided for the use of any such person under the Ordinance, he shall use the means or appliance.
(2) (Repealed 71 of 1989 s. 13)

22. Application of this Part
This Part (except regulation 23) shall apply to every notifiable workplace that is an industrial undertaking.
(50 of 1985 s. 9)

23. Form of notification and prohibition notice
Every notification under section 9 of the Ordinance and every prohibition notice under section 9A of the Ordinance shall be in such form as the Commissioner for Labour may from time to time approve by notice in the Gazette.
(50 of 1985 s. 9)

### Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations 《工廠及工業經營規例》

24. Fencing of dangerous platforms, liquids, etc.
In every notifiable workplace— (50 of 1985 s. 9)
(a) all platforms, pits and openings in floors and every other place liable to be dangerous to persons; and
(b) all vessels containing any scalding, corrosive or poisonous liquid,
shall be securely fenced to a height of not less than 900 millimetres or otherwise protected to the satisfaction of the Commissioner. (L.N. 238 of 1984)

25. Cleaning of dangerous machinery by young persons
(1) No young person shall be permitted to clean any dangerous part of the machinery in a notifiable workplace while the machinery is in motion by the aid of any mechanical power. For the purpose of this paragraph, such parts of the machinery shall be presumed to be dangerous as are notified by an occupational safety officer to the proprietor of the notifiable workplace. (50 of 1985 s. 9; 32 of 2000 s. 48)
(2) No young person shall be permitted to clean any mill-gearing while such mill-gearing is in motion for the purpose of propelling any part of the machinery in a notifiable workplace.
(L.N. 302 of 1996)

### Factories and Industrial Undertakings Regulations 《工廠及工業經營規例》

32. Cleanliness
(1) Every notifiable workplace shall be kept in a clean state, and free from effluvia arising from any drain, sanitary convenience or nuisance, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions—
(a) accumulations of dirt and refuse shall be removed daily by a suitable method from the floor and benches of workrooms and from the staircases and passages;
(b) the floor of every workroom shall be cleaned at least once in every week by washing or, if it is effective and suitable, by sweeping or other method; and
(c) all inside walls and partitions, and all ceilings or tops of rooms shall be limewashed at least once in every year or, if they have been oil-painted or varnished, they shall be washed with hot water and soap at least once in every period of 14 months and repainted or varnished at least once in every period of 42 months.
(2) The proprietor of a notifiable workplace shall maintain a record of—
(a) the surfaces within the notifiable workplace which have been limewashed in accordance with paragraph (1)(c); and
(b) the painted and varnished surfaces within the notifiable workplace and the parts thereof which have been washed, or repainted or revarnished, in accordance with paragraph (1)(c); and
(c) the name and address of each person who carried out such work and the date or dates on which the work was carried out.
(3) The proprietor of a notifiable workplace shall produce the record maintained under paragraph (2) for inspection when required to do so by an occupational safety officer. (32 of 2000 s. 48)
(50 of 1985 s. 9)