Safety hints about fatal work accident that happened in Kowloon City on 3 August 2026

In response to the fatal work accident that happened at a construction site in Kowloon City on the afternoon of 3 August 2026, in which a male employee fell from an edge of a roof of a building under alteration during his work and was later certified dead in hospital, the Labour Department calls on duty holders to take adequate precautionary measures to prevent workers from falling while working at height, including but not limited to:

• Providing workers with suitable and adequate safe means of access to and egress from working locations, and ensuring that all dangerous edges are properly and securely fenced off.
• If the provision of the above-mentioned measures is not practicable, employers should provide suitable full-body harnesses to workers, which should be attached continuously to suitable and secure anchor points or independent lifelines with fall arresting system so as to protect workers' work-at-height safety.