Guidance Notes On
                                                       Continuing Professional Development Programmes
                                                       Under The Factories And Industrial Undertakings
                                                       (Safety Officers And Safety Supervisors)
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                  This Guidance Notes is published by the
                  Occupational Safety and Health Branch
                  Labour Department
                  First edition         February 2003
                  Second edition        October 2011
                  Third edition         February 2012
                  Fourth edition        January 2022        (This edition has been amended to include 
                                                            adding professional ethics and integrity 
                                                            of safety officers as a compulsory CPD 
                                                            Programme; accepting training on subjects 
                                                            in other learning areas (“OLA”) as CPD 
                                                            Programmes; and adjusting the maximum 
                                                            acceptable CPD hours of each category of 
                                                            CPD Programmes to tie in with the above 
                                                            amendments.)
                  This Guidance Notes is issued free of charge and can be obtained from offices 
                  of the Occupational Safety and Health Branch or downloaded from the Labour 
                  Department’s website at https://www.labour.gov.hk/eng/public/content2_8.htm. 
                  For enquiries on addresses and telephone numbers of the offices, please visit 
                  the Labour Department’s website at https://www.labour.gov.hk/eng/tele/osh.htm 
                  or call 2559 2297.
                  This Guidance Notes may be freely reproduced except for advertising, endorsement 
                  or commercial purposes. For extracts of information, please acknowledge the 
                  source as “Guidance Notes on Continuing Professional Development Programmes 
                  under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings (Safety Officers and Safety 
                  Supervisors) Regulations” published by the Labour Department.