Occupational Safety

A Guide to the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Management) Regulation

2. Duty of proprietor and contractor

2.1 Develop safety management system 

• A proprietor of a factory, a shipyard business, a designated undertaking or a contractor in relation to construction work, has to develop, implement and maintain in respect of his industrial undertaking a safety management system.  The duties of a proprietor and a contractor are given in Appendix I

  
  "Safety management system" means a system which provides safety management in an industrial undertaking.  In this connection, "safety management" means the management functions connected with the carrying on of an industrial undertaking that relate to the safety of personnel in the undertaking, including the planning, developing, organizing and implementing of a safety policy and the measuring, auditing or reviewing of the performance of those functions. 

2.1  Develop safety management system 2.2  Prepare, revise, etc. safety policy 2.3  Establish safety committee 2.4  Appoint registered safety auditor to conduct safety audit 2.5  Provide facilities for safety audit 2.6  Take action on safety audit report 2.7  Produce safety audit report, etc. for inspection 2.8  Appoint safety review officer to conduct safety review 2.9  Provide facilities for safety review 2.10 Take action on safety review report 2.11 Produce safety review report, etc., for inspection 2.12 Replace safety review officer 2.13 Assist the Commissioner to inspect safety audit

 

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Duty of proprietor and contractor

3. Duty of registered safety auditor, safety review officer and scheme operator

4. Penalty

5. Related occupational safety and health publications published by the Labour Department

6. Useful information

Appendix