香港法例/HK0304 工廠及工業經營(應呈報工場的防火設備)規例

(i) so far as may be reasonably necessary for that purpose, provide proper storage for them;

(ii) if it is necessary that they should be transparent, keep them clean; and

(b) take all reasonable steps to ensure that every person for whose use he so provides eye protectors or a shield or a fixed shield, as the case may be, makes full and proper use of the same. (71 of 1989 s. 13)

Where the proprietor of an industrial undertaking to which these regulations apply provides eye protectors or a shield or a fixed shield, as the case may be, for the use of any person under these regulations, that person shall-

(a) make full and proper use thereof; and

(b) report forthwith to the proprietor the loss or destruction thereof or any damage thereto or defect herein.

(1) Any proprietor of an industrial undertaking to which these regulations apply who contravenes any of the provisions of regulation 5, 6 or 7 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $50000. (L.N. 41 of 1994)

(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regulation 8 shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $10000.

In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires-

""approved ear protector"" (認可聽覺保護器) means a type of ear protector approved by the Commissioner under section 7;

""daily personal noise exposure"" (每日個人噪音暴露量) means the level of daily personal noise exposure of an employee ascertained in accordance with the Schedule;

(b) of providing him with information with regard to the noise to which his employees may be exposed that will enable him to comply with his duties under sections 4, 6, 8 and 9(1).

(3) The person who carried out the assessment shall prepare an assessment report in the form, and containing the information, that the Commissioner may, by notice in the Gazette, require.

(4) Within 28 days after completing an assessment the proprietor shall send a copy of the assessment report to the Commissioner.

(5) The proprietor shall make the assessment report available at all reasonable times for inspection by an inspector.

(2) Where a proprietor's employee is likely to be exposed to a second action level or above or to a peak action level or above, the proprietor shall ensure, as far as is practicable, that-

(a) the area within the industrial undertaking where the employee will likely be so exposed is demarcated and identified as an ear protection zone by means of signs and notices sufficient to indicate that-

(ii) employees must wear suitable approved ear protectors while in the zone;

(b) signs and notices that are the same as or to the same effect as those required under paragraph (a) are put up within the zone in conspicuous positions; and

(c) no employee enters or remains in the zone unless the employee is wearing a suitable approved ear protector.

(b) attach a sign or label to the machine or tool requiring that a suitable approved ear protector be worn by every employee who operates or assists in the operation of the machine or tool within the specified distance; and

(c) ensure that every employee who operates or assists in the operation of the machine or tool who is within the specified distance wears a suitable approved ear protector.

(2) Subsection (1) does not require a proprietor to provide a suitable approved ear protector to an employee where the wearing of the protector would likely cause risk to the safety of the employee or to any other person.

The Commissioner may approve any type of ear protector for the purposes of this Regulation and where he does so he shall publish in the Gazette the name or description of the type of ear protector that he has approved.