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Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Cargo Handling) Regulations

Jurisdiction China - Hong Kong
Year 1978
Published in English
Source Government Printer, Hong Kong, 1991. 4p. Price: HKD 10.00.
Serial number Hong Kong Cap.59 K
Descriptors [Primary] Hong Kong, dock work, harbours, loading and unloading, materials handling
[Secondary] access to workplaces, electricity, first-aid equipment, first-aid training, fork-lift trucks, handling and stacking, law, lighting, rescue from drowning
Subject category Mechanical hazards, transport
Abstract Regulations effective 21 July 1978 (updated to 1991) and issued under the authority of the 1955 Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance (see CIS 89-6). They concern safety requirements during the loading, unloading and handling of goods at a dock, quay or wharf. The requirements include: safe access to all working places; provisions for rescue from drowning; proper lighting; safe electrical equipment; maintenance and safe use of fork-lift trucks; safe stacking and unstacking of cargo or goods. A separate part deals with the provision of first aid facilities and with the training of workers in first aid. In the schedule: list of first aid equipment to be kept in a first aid box or cupboard.
CIS No. 93-731
Database ID 60190

 

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