Cap. 59activeordinance

Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance

工廠及工業經營條例

Full legislation

s.6B

General duties of persons employed

(1)
It shall be the duty of every person employed at an industrial undertaking while
                at
work—
(a)
to take reasonable care for the health and safety of
                    the
                    person and of other persons who may be affected by the
                    person’s acts or omissions at work; and
(b)
as regards any duty or requirement imposed on a proprietor of the
                    industrial undertaking or on any other person by this Ordinance for securing the
                    health and safety of persons employed at the industrial undertaking, to
                    co-operate with
                    the
                    proprietor or other person so far as is necessary to enable
                    that duty or requirement to be performed or complied with.
(2)
A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is
                liable
                on conviction to a fine of $150,000.
(Amended
40 of 1997 s. 3
)
(3)
A person employed at an industrial undertaking who wilfully and without
                reasonable excuse does anything while at work likely to endanger
                the
                person or others commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of
                $150,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
(Amended
81 of 1993 s. 4
;
E.R. 2 of
                2019
)