AI-assisted research summary: Medical practitioners must report certain occupational disease cases to the Director of Health, and the Director must pass one copy to the Commissioner.
Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Notification of Occupational Diseases) Regulations(Cap. 59, section 7) [12 March 1965](Format changes—E.R. 1 of 2021) 1. Citation These regulations may be cited as the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Notification of Occupational Diseases) Regulations. 2. Interpretation In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—medical practitioner (醫生) means a person who is registered, or deemed to be registered, as a medical practitioner under the Medical Registration Ordinance (Cap. 161);occupational disease (職業病) means any disease specified in the First Schedule. 3. Medical practitioners to notify cases of occupational disease (1) If, upon an examination of any person who is or has been employed in an industrial undertaking or of the body of any deceased person who was at the time of his death so employed or who had been so employed, a medical practitioner believes that that person is suffering from an occupational disease or was at the time of his death suffering from an occupational disease, he shall forthwith notify the Director of Health by sending to him 2 copies of a notice in the form prescribed in the Second Schedule.(2) The Director of Health shall deliver to the Commissioner 1 copy of the notice given pursuant to paragraph (1).(3) (a) A medical practitioner who makes application therefor within 1 month after the giving of the notice shall be paid by the Director of Health a fee of $2 in respect of each notice given pursuant to paragraph (1).(b) Subparagraph (a) does not apply in the case of a medical practitioner who is a public officer.(L.N. 76 of 1989) 4. Offences and penalties Any person who contravenes regulation 3(1) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine at level 5.(L.N. 317 of 1981; E.R. 1 of 2021; 5 of 2023 s. 23) First Schedule [reg. 2]Occupational Disease 1. Poisoning by lead, manganese, phosphorus, arsenic, mercury, carbon bisulphide, benzene or a homologue thereof, a nitro-derivative or amido-derivative of benzene or of a homologue of benzene, dinitrophenol or a homologue of dinitrophenol, cadmium, tri-cresyl phosphate, halogen derivatives of hydrocarbons of the aliphatic series or nitrous fumes 2. Anthrax 3. Primary epitheliomatous cancer of the skin or ulceration of the corneal surface of the eye 4. Chrome ulceration 5. Inflammation or ulceration of the skin produced by dust, liquid or vapour (including the condition known as chloracne but excluding chrome ulceration) 6. Heat cataract 7. Decompression sickness 8. Pathological manifestations due to radium or other radioactive substances or X-rays 9. Silicosis (L.N. 317 of 1981) 10. Asbestosis (L.N. 317 of 1981)(E.R. 1 of 2021) Second Schedule [reg. 3(1)]Form of Notice Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Notificationof Occupational Diseases) RegulationsNotice of Occupational Disease To: Director of Health Notice is hereby given of the following occupational disease— For Official Use Only Case No.:— confirmed/suspected* Ref. No.:— Possible cause— Action taken:— Date contracted/of recurrence*— Name of patient/deceased*— Sex— ........................... Age— Home address— Employed as— Name, address and trade or industry of employer— Hospital sent to (if any)— Name and address of notifying medical practitioner— Date— 19 . Signature of notifying medical practitioner * Delete whichever is inapplicable. (L.N. 76 of 1989)