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[接上页] (b) where no such certificate is required, the relevant safe working load appropriate to the lifting appliance or lifting gear; (L.N. 280 of 1978)"safety belt" (安全带) includes a safety harness; (L.N. 76 of 1999) "scaffold" (棚架) means any temporarily provided structure on or from which persons perform work in connexion with operations or works to which these regulations apply, and any temporarily provided structure which enables persons to obtain access to or which enables materials to be taken to any place at which such work is performed, and includes any working platform, gangway, run, ladder or step-ladder (other than an independent ladder or step-ladder which does not form part of such a structure) together with any guard-rail, toe-board or other safeguards and all fixings, but does not include a lifting appliance or a structure used merely to support such an appliance or to support other plant or equipment; (L.N. 238 of 1983) "suspended working platform" (吊船) means a suspended working platform within the meaning of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Suspended Working Platforms) Regulation (Cap 59 sub. leg. AC); (L.N. 76 of 1999) "tower working platform" (塔式工作平台) has the same meaning as in the Builders' Lifts and Tower Working Platforms (Safety) Ordinance (Cap 470); (L.N. 552 of 1995) "transmission machinery" (传动机械) means any shaft, wheel, drum, pulley, system of fast and loose pulleys, coupling, clutch, driving belt, or other device, by which the motion of a prime mover is transmitted to or received by any plant; "used" or "in use" (用、使用), in relation to any plant, means used or in use in construction work; "working platform" (工作平台) includes a working stage; (L.N. 238 of 1983) "workman" (工人) means a person engaged in construction work. (2) For the purposes of these regulations- (a) a contractor is responsible for a construction site if he is undertaking construction work there or, where there is more than one contractor undertaking construction work at the site, if he is the principal contractor undertaking work there; (b) a contractor is responsible for any plant referred to in these regulations if it is located at a construction site for which he is responsible. (L.N. 76 of 1999; L.N. 258 of 2003) Cap 59I reg 3 Application of regulations These regulations apply to- (a) all construction work; (b) all construction sites; and (c) the machinery, plant, tools, gear and materials with which any construction work is carried on. Cap 59I reg 4 Exemptions If the Commissioner is satisfied that, in case of any particular class or description of plant or of any special description or method of work, the application of any requirement of these regulations relating to safety or health is, in certain circumstances, not necessary in the interests of safety or not reasonably practicable, he may, by certificate in writing under his hand, grant an exemption from that requirement in the case of that class or description of plant or of that special description or method of work in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as may be specified in the certificate. Cap 59I reg 4A Restriction on employment of persons under 18 years of age on construction sites PART IA EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS UNDER 18 ON CONSTRUCTION SITES (1) The contractor responsible for a construction site shall ensure that no person under 18 years of age is employed at any place on the site unless that person- (a) is apprenticed to that contractor or to any other contractor engaged in work at that site, under a contract of apprenticeship registered under the Apprenticeship Ordinance (Cap 47); (b) has completed an apprenticeship and possesses a certificate of completion issued under the Apprenticeship Ordinance (Cap 47); (c) has undertaken an approved training course and possesses a certificate of completion in respect of that course issued by the Authority in such form as the Authority may determine for that purpose; or (d) is undergoing on-site training, as part of an approved training course, under the supervision of any person authorized in writing by the Authority for that purpose.(1A) Any contractor who has direct control over any construction work shall ensure that no person under 18 years of age is employed to carry out the construction work unless that person satisfies one or more of the descriptions set out in paragraph (1)(a), (b), (c) or (d). (L.N. 258 of 2003) (2) In this regulation- "approved training course" (认可训练课程) means such training course provided by the Authority as the Commissioner may approve from time to time for the purposes of this regulation; "Authority" (当局) means the Construction Industry Training Authority established under the Industrial Training (Construction Industry) Ordinance (Cap 317). (Part IA added L.N. 221 of 1994) Cap 59I reg 5 Construction, maintenance, and inspection of hoist PART II USE OF HOIST ETC. |