Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Guarding and Operation of Machinery) Regulations Jurisdiction China - Hong Kong Year 1977 Published in English Source Government Printer, Hong Kong, 1991. 4p. Price: HKD 10.00. Serial number L.N.34 of 1977 Descriptors [Primary] Hong Kong, machinery, machinery guarding regulations, safety devices [Secondary] belt conveyors, emergency stop devices, fixed guards, law, responsibilities of employers, young persons Subject category Mechanical hazards, transport Abstract Regulations effective on 1 Apr. 1977 (updated to 1985) and issued under the authority of the 1955 Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (see CIS 89-6). It concerns: guarding of dangerous parts; methods of guarding; provision of an opening in fixed guards for the insertion and withdrawal of materials from machinery or plant; conditions for young persons working with machinery; starting and stopping devices; emergency stopping devices; stock-bars; belts and pulleys; responsibilities of proprietors, employees and others; offences. In schedules: list of dangerous parts of machinery or plant; parts of machinery or plant to which these regulations do not apply; dimensions etc. of openings in fixed guards; machines not to be operated by untrained/unsupervised young persons. CIS No. 93-729 Database ID 60187