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Pang Kwok-lam

Chief Occupational Safety Officer

Labour Department

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乾隆皇 下江南 的故事

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陳水扁 下台南 的故事

Guidelines on occupational safety and health management systems

ILO-OSH 2001

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3.13. Audit

3.13.1. Arrangements to conduct periodic audits are to be established in order to determine whether the OSH management system and its elements are in place, adequate, and effective in protecting the safety and health of workers and preventing incidents.

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3.13.3. The audit includes an evaluation of the organization's OSH management system elements. The audit should cover:

a) OSH policy;

b) worker participation;

c) responsibility and accountability;

d) competence and training;

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e) OSH management system documentation;

f) communication;

g) system planning, development and implementation;

h) prevention and control measures;

i) management of change;

j) emergency prevention, preparedness and response

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k) procurement;

l) contracting;

m) performance monitoring and measurement;

n) investigation of work-related injuries, ill health, diseases and incidents, and their impact on safety and health performance;

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o) audit;

p) management review;

q) preventive and corrective action;

r) continual improvement; and

s) any other audit criteria or elements that may be appropriate.

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3.13.4. The audit conclusion should determine whether the implemented OSH management system elements :

a) are effective in meeting the organization's OSH policy and objectives;

b) are effective in promoting full worker participation;

c) respond to the results of OSH performance evaluation and previous audits;

d) enable the organization to achieve compliance with relevant national laws and regulations; and

e) fulfill the goals of continual improvement and best OSH practice.

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3.13.5. Audits should be conducted by competent persons internal or external to the organization who are independent of the activity being audited.

3.13.6. The audit results and audit conclusions should be communicated to those responsible for corrective action.

3.13.7. Consultation on selection of the auditor and all stages of the workplace audit, including analysis of results, are subject to worker participation, as appropriate.

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The Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Management) Regulation (“SMR”) was passed by the LegCo on 24 November 1999 and has been implemented by bringing the first ten process elements into operation since 1 April 2002.

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Establishments 223 216 4 17

Audit Reports received 1483 394 7 50

Improvement Plans received 1460 380 7 46

Construction Factories Shipyards Designated IUs

Safety

Audit

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Establishments 158 156 4 6

Review Reports received 207 164 0 0

Improvement Plans received 205 159 0 0

Construction Factories Shipyards Designated IUs

Safety Review

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Improvement made

• Recommendation on safety management elements improvement instead of only on physical conditions

• Improvement in presentation

• Stronger evidence support in observations

• Executive summary user friendly

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Improvement to be made

Under the SMR, employees of the proprietor or contractor can also conduct safety audit/review to their employers’ establishments provided that he is not required to carry out other work of a nature or to the extent that would prevent the efficacious conduct of the audit/review. However, whether the auditor comes from an internal arrangement is often not disclosed in the report. Even it is disclosed, there is often no such information contained in the audit/review report.

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Improvement to be made

The terms "safety auditing" and "safety inspection" are often misunderstood and misused. The audit is an independent objective and systematic review of SMS whilst inspection is an examination of actual physical workplace conditions. Some of the audit reports are basically inspection reports.

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Improvement to be made

Some auditors classified two types of improvements, namely the “Observations for Improvement” and the “Recommendations for Improvement”. “Observations for Improvement” are optional improvements for continual improvement and “Recommendations for Improvement” are mandatory improvement items as those are irregularities under the OSH legislation. 

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Improvement to be made

Some of the auditors have not entered their full name in the report. It might be difficult for LD to verify whether they are registered safety auditors or not especially if the RSA number is also missing in the report.

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CHASE

Paper chasing

Score chasing

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Enforcement of SMR

One duty holder was prosecuted for not appointing a safety reviewer to conducted a safety review

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李敖 與 北京法源寺 的 故 事

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法源寺是北京一座古老寺廟從唐代建廟開始距今已有 1000 多年的歷史由於李敖以法源寺為名寫了一本暢銷小說，因此聲名大噪，這次李敖到北京就專程要到這裡來看看。

其實，李敖從沒有來法源寺，他當年是根據朋友對法源寺照相繪圖，才寫下暢銷小說。

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知痴

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

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Thank You