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The Labour Department urges lifting appliance examiners to properly observe regulations dealing with lifting equipment.
The call comes after the High Court recently dismissed an appeal launched by registered engineer Sun Kam-sing against a conviction for violating the Factories & Industrial Undertakings (Lifting Appliances & Lifting Gear) Regulations.
Sun was found guilty and fined $30,000 at Eastern Magistracy last December for delivering a false certificate to a tower crane owner.
A department officer found in a routine inspection on January 20 last year that a tower crane at a construction site did not have an automatic safe load indicator installed. A Certificate of Test & Thorough Examination issued by the engineer indicated that the automatic safe load indicator was in good working order.
According to the regulations a registered professional engineer who delivers to a tower crane owner a false certificate is liable to a $200,000 fine and a year's jail.
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