Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety management) Regulation is a new legislation requiring factory, construction site, shipyard and designated undertaking to establish their own safety management system.

'designated undertaking' means an industrial undertaking involving any of the following activities -

1. the generation, transformation and transmission of electricity;
2. the generation and transmission of town gas, or liquefied petroleum gas, within the meaning of section 2 of the Gas Safety Ordinance (Cap. 51); or
3. container handling.

Factory, shipyard, construction site and designated undertaking have to establish safety management system according to their scale of operation:

1. A contractor, factory, shipyard or designated undertaking with 50-99 workers shall establish a safety management system with 8 elements.
2. A contractor, factory, shipyard or designated undertaking with 100 or more workers, or a construction work with a contract value of $100 million or more, shall establish a safety management system with 10 elements (which will be increased to 14 elements).
3. A contractor, factory, shipyard or designated undertaking with 50 workers or more shall prepare a safety policy statement.
4. A contractor, factory, shipyard or designated undertaking with 100 workers or more, or a construction work with a contract value of $100 million or more, shall establish a safety committee.

A contractor, factory, shipyard or designated undertaking with 100 workers or more, or a construction work with a contract value of $100 million or more, shall appoint Registered Safety Auditor to carry out safety audit at appropriate intervals.

A contractor, factory, shipyard or designated undertaking with 50-99 workers shall appoint Safety Review Officer to carry out safety review at appropriate intervals.

JSC provides Registered Safety Auditor to conduct safety audit and safety review in accordance with the requirement of the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Management) Regulation.