CODE OF PRACTICE FOR SITE SUPERVISION – Scope

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1                    Scope

  1. Safety management of building works or street works addresses two types  of supervision:
    1. Quality Supervision

This means ensuring that the building works or street works are carried out in general accordance  with the provisions  of the Buildings Ordinance and Regulations, and with the plans approved in respect of them by the Building Authority (BA) or the plans submitted to the BA in respect of minor works which are carried out in accordance with the simplified requirements (hereafter called “submitted plans for minor works”), and with any order made or condition imposed, pursuant to any provision of the Ordinance or regulations in that behalf, by the BA; and

  • Site Safety Supervision

This means controlling hazards from building works or street works so as to minimize the risk to:

  • the workers on site;
    • all persons around the site; and
    • adjoining buildings, structures and land.
  1. The Technical  Memorandum for Supervision Plans (the “Technical Memorandum”) sets out the principles, requirements and operation of supervision plans. This Code of Practice for Site Supervision provides detailed guidance to the practitioners on the application of the Technical Memorandum in the preparation of supervision plans and in the adoption of good practices for site supervision.
  1. Apart from the Technical Memorandum, reference should also be made to the Buildings Ordinance, Practice Notes for Authorized Persons, Registered Structural Engineers and Registered Geotechnical Engineers, Practice Notes for Registered Contractors and any other relevant documents issued by the BA.

CODE OF PRACTICE FOR SITE SUPERVISION – FOREWORD

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The Supervision Plan System has been implemented since December 1997 with the issuance of the Technical  Memorandum for Supervision Plans (the “Technical Memorandum”) and the Draft Code of Practice for Site Safety Supervision. The Draft Code was refined in November 2000 with some clarification on the principles and requirements and some simplification on the procedures.

Pursuant to the enactment of the Buildings (Amendment) Ordinance 2004, the second edition of the Technical Memorandum and Code of Practice for Site Supervision came into effect on 31 December 2005. The revisions covered inclusion of the requirements for quality supervision and the qualified supervision requirements for geotechnical works, deletion of the details on assessment of degree of complexity and class of supervision, and updating of the qualification and experience requirements for TCP and the additional supervision requirements for critical stages of building works.

With the introduction of the minor works control system and a new register of minor works contractors under the Buildings (Amendment) Ordinance 2008, a new regime to control the carrying out of building works that are designated as minor works is established. This revision covers supervision requirement for the carrying out of minor works and other minor refinements of the Supervision Plan System.

This Code of Practice gives guidance to authorized persons, registered structural engineers, registered geotechnical engineers, registered contractors and other personnel in the building industry for the preparation of supervision plans, carrying out their respective supervision duties and other site supervision matters.