Posted By Frank Macleod
Taileuk,

The MHSWR 1999,Regulation 8 requires you to have procedures to deal with serious or imminent danger or danger areas. The ACOP gives good guidance on what you need to do as a minimum, which is reasonably practicable.

Regards
Frank Macleod

Posted By Philip McAleenan
Taileuk,
I have sent you a document attached to an e-mail which I hope will be useful in you operation,
Regards, Philip

Posted By Ken Urquhart
Taileuk,

I want to be helpful but, I wonder if you are a Safety Professional or a concerned employee trying to uplift safety in your Company.
Or are you perhaps a Superviser or Manager who has been given responsibility for Safety aspects of parts of your workplace and the processes and or work tasks carried on there.

Are you a Registered Safety Officer (Hong Kong Labour dept.,)
If you are you should know the answers.

If you are not then you should consult your Companies RSO.

If your Company does not have Safety Advice then you should look at The Hong Kong Legislation ; The Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Officers and Safety Supervisers) Regulations.

Go to the HK Government web sites.

The Labour dept., Site.

www.info.gov.hk/labour/welcome/index.htm

Then click on Occupational Safety and Health in the left hand page scroll bar.

This will take you to the occupational Safety and Health specific pages.
Scroll down this page till you get to "Occupational Safety and Health INTERNET Links."
Under Hong Kong, open Occupational Health & Safety Council link, this will bring up their Home page with a choice of Chinese or English.
Go to the bar marked Resource Centre and there you will find a complete list of Hong Kong Health & safety legislation.

Also on the OHSC site you will find a page marked BOOKSHELF where many of the regulations and the published Guidance (Labour Dept Guidance) is downloadable Free of Charge.

For the full texts and the Ordinances for HK Law go to.

www.justice.gov.hk/Home.htm

This will take you to a site that is called Bliss on the net.
Hre you will find a searchable index of all HK Ordinances and all up-dates and amendments, again in Chinese or English.

For Fire and Fire relatd information and Guidance, You refer to risks in the Workplace with Gas cylinders, go to the site of the Hong Kong Fires Services Departmnt.

www.info.gov.hk/hkfsd

Be reminded that Gases, Gas cylinders and related products and Chemicals come under the Dangerous Goods Regulations, and for storage purposes, you have to apply through The Fire Services Department for approval and a licence for your Dangerous Goods (Gas) Store. ie; It's position/location,it's Fabrication criteria,It's capaciy, and the Fire Precauions.

Also talk to The Labour Department, they have many Guiance documents and leaflets and they issue them Free of Charge.
Contact:

The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,
The Labour Department,
15/Floor, Harbour Building,
38 Pier Road,
CENTRAL,
Hong Kong.

Phone 852 - 2852 - 4041

Check their web site, (address given earlier and you can e-mail them).

If you want some guidance other than Hong Kong's, or, to compare with Hong Kong look at the schedule of related Country/Organisation Health & Safety Web sites and organisations that I referred to earlier as listed in the LINKS on the HK Labour Departments web pages.

But also remember that whatever procedure you devise and apply it must first and foremost achieve compliance with the specifics of the appropriate Hong Kong Ordinances. If it achieves better, then so much more to the common good.

Hope this helps and if you would like to talk or to e-mail me, (I am Hong Kong based) contact me first with your telephone number and address, by e-mail.

kenurquhart@pccw.com

Regards.

Ken Urquhart