Notifying Your Workplace and Construction Work

Proprietors of Notifiable Workplaces and contractors undertaking Construction Works are required to give notification of their workplaces (including factories and catering establishments, etc.) or construction works to the Commissioner for Labour. A proprietor or contractor who fails to give the notification commits an offence and may be prosecuted. He also deprives himself of an opportunity of being advised by Occupational Safety Officers of the Labour Department to improve the safety and health conditions of his workplace in the early stage of operation.

Notification of Workplace

Section 9 of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance requires that proprietor of a Notifiable Workplace shall give the Commissioner for Labour:

1. notification of his workplace in the prescribed form (FIUO-NOT) before the first occasion on which any industrial process is commenced or any industrial operation is carried on in the workplace;
2. notification of change in the location or name of the workplace or in the nature of the industrial process or industrial operation carried on therein in the prescribed form (LD394(S)) before the change takes effect;
3. where there has been a change in identity of the proprietor of the workplace, notification of the fact of such change within 21 days after it takes effect.

Notification of Construction Work

Regulations 56, 58 and 59 of the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations requires that a contractor undertaking Construction Work shall:

1. furnish the Commissioner for Labour with information (LD202) on the construction work within 7 days after commencement of the work;
2. whenever a material change occurs in respect of any information furnished according to (a), notify the Commissioner for Labour in writing of the change within 7 days after becoming aware of it; and
3. notify the Commissioner for Labour in writing of the date of completion of the relevant construction work within 7 days after its completion.