A brief guide to OS&H ordinance

Purposes of the Ordinance

* To ensure the safety and health of employees when they are at work;

* To prescribe measures that will make the workplaces of employees safer and healthier for them;

* To improve the safety and health standards applicable to certain hazardous processes, plant and substances used or kept in workplaces; and

* To improve the safety and health aspects of working environments of employees.

The Ordinance is applicable, with only a few exceptions, to all employers and occupiers of premises where workplaces are located. It also binds the government. Domestic premises where the only employees are domestic servants, and places where only self-employed persons work are not workplaces under the Ordinance.
An employee is at work only during the time when he is actually at a workplace. An employee is not regarded at work when he is being conveyed as a passenger in a car, ferry or other vehicle in circumstances no different from that of an ordinary passenger.

Some aspects on this post talk about duties of employers:

General Duties of Employers

Every employer must, so far as reasonably practicable, ensure the safety and health at work of all his employees. His duties include:

* provide and maintain plant and system of work that are safe and without risks to health;

* make arragements for ensuring safety and absence of risks to health in connection with the use, handling, storage or transport of plant or substances;

* provide information, instruction, training and supervision as may be necessary to ensure the safety and health at work;

* maintain workplace including the means of access to and egress from the workplace in a condition that is safe and without risks to health; and

* provide and maintain workplace and working environment that are safe and without risks to health.

But have you questioned yourself about your duties and have you thought what ordinance means?

ORDINANCE:
* regulation: an authoritative rule
* a statute enacted by a city government
* ordination: the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination"

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Now, you must think in your duties... I'll post them here tomorrow.