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Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Notification of Occupational Diseases) Regulations

Jurisdiction China - Hong Kong
Year 1965
Published in English
Source Government Printer, Hong Kong, 1981. 2p. Price: HKD 1.50.
Serial number Hong Kong Cap.59 E
Descriptors [Primary] Hong Kong, notification of occupational diseases
[Secondary] anthrax, asbestosis, chrome ulcer, decompression sickness, infrared radiation cataract, law, poisoning, radiation disease, schedule of occupational diseases, silicosis, skin cancer, ulceration of the skin
Subject category Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Abstract Regulations effective 12 March 1965 and issued under the authority of the 1955 Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (see CIS 89-6). They require medical practitioners to notify the Director of Medical and Health Services of any case of occupational disease they diagnose in a patient or in the body of a deceased person. In annex: list of occupational diseases (poisoning by one of a number of toxic substances; anthrax; skin cancer or ulceration of the corneal surface of the eye; chrome ulceration; skin inflammation or ulceration produced by dust, liquid or vapour; heat cataract; decompression sickness; pathological manifestations due to radioactive substances or X-rays; silicosis; asbestosis); form to be used for the notification.
CIS No. 93-353
Database ID 59902

 

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