Introduction

As part of the effort to continuously enhance the safety and technical standards of the electrical trade and to promote work safety culture within organizations, the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) has been collaborating with trade associations to organize various publicity activities, including the selection of trade associations and electrical workers with outstanding performance to celebrate their achievement and give them an opportunity to share with other trade members their daily work experience and insights, and the ways to promote and realize work safety culture within their team. This year we continue to work with the Hong Kong & Kowloon Electrical Engineering & Appliances Trade Workers Union and the Hong Kong Electrical Contractors’ Association to organize the "Outstanding Registered Electrical Worker Awards Scheme 2017". The selection criteria for the Scheme focus on the participants’ level of technical know-how and safety awareness at electrical work. Through this Scheme, we hope to raise awareness of electrical work safety among trade members and enhance the technical standard of the trade.

Objectives

1. To encourage registered electrical workers to promote work safety culture
2. To arouse work safety awareness among electrical workers
3. To award prizes to registered electrical contractors and registered electrical workers who put a high premium on work safety and implement work safety measures

Categories

Participants may enter the “Individual Category” on an individual basis or the “Team Category” in a team comprising a minimum of two and a maximum of three members in any combination.

Eligibility

The selection under the Individual Category and the Team Category is only open to registered electrical workers registered with EMSD (irrespective of the registered grade), while the members of each team under the Team Category can come from the same or different registered electrical contractors.

Format and Assessment

The selection consists of three stages of testing. Individual participants or one member assigned by each team shall participate in each stage. Each member of the participating teams is required to participate in at least one stage of testing during the whole selection process.

A written test will be held in the first stage. Individuals and teams demonstrating superior safety knowledge will be selected. The written test, consisting of 40 multiple choice questions, is divided into two sections. The five best performing individual participants and the five best performing participating teams will enter the second and third stages of testing with the endorsement of the adjudication panel.

The second and third stages of testing will be held on the same day. The second stage is a trade test while the third is an interview. During the trade test at the second stage, individual participants or one member from each shortlisted team will have to carry out inspection and testing to an electrical installation to find out defects in the circuit. The adjudication panel will assess the working procedures and performance of individual participants or members of shortlisted teams in aspects of safety and technical standards.

During the interview at the third stage, individual participants or one member from each shortlisted team are required to present to the adjudication panel, in any format, a proposal for enhancing electrical work safety at site. The proposal may include the electrical hazards encountered in the course of daily work and the solutions. If an individual participant or a shortlisted team chooses to submit the proposal in the form of a written report, a PowerPoint presentation or a video, such information may be submitted two weeks before the interview date (photos or audio-visual material in Chinese or English, if any, may also be submitted. If submitted by e-mail, each mail should not exceed 10MB). The assessment is mainly based on the content of the proposal. Apart from the electrical work safety proposal, assessment of the work safety awareness and level of technical know-how of individual participants or members of shortlisted teams will also be made during the interview.

Finally, winners will be selected from shortlisted individual participants and shortlisted teams according to their overall performance.

The adjudication panel is composed of six members, each nominated by the following organizations:

• Hong Kong & Kowloon Electrical Engineering & Appliances Trade Workers Union
• Hong Kong Electrical Contractors’ Association
• The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (Electrical Division)
• Building Services Operation and Maintenance Executives Society
• Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education
• Electrical and Mechanical Services Department

Enrolment

Interested parties should complete the enrolment form [PDF format (31KB)] and submit it by mail / fax to the Electricity Legislation Division of EMSD (Address: 7/F, EMSD Headquarters Building, 3 Kai Shing Street, Kowloon; Fax: 2895 4929) on or before 8 September 2017.

Eligible participants / representative of the team will be notified in writing. Participants who receive the written notice are advised to read the Instructions to Participants before they attend the written test.

Trade Test at Second Stage and Interview at Third Stage

Prizes

Announcement of Results

The prize presentation ceremony has been held during the Annual Technical Seminar on 7 November 2017. Names of the winners and the companies that employ them are published below:

• Pamphlet of the Prize Presentation Ceremony (Chinese version only) [PDF format (2.03MB)]
• Supplement of Hong Kong Economic Times on 16 November 2017 (Chinese version only) [PDF format (3.40MB)]

Terms and Conditions

1. The Organizer reserves the right to change the rules, prizes and other arrangements of the selection without prior notice.
2. Entry of misleading or false information on the enrolment form may result in disqualification.
3. The selection in a particular category will be cancelled without prior notice if the number of entries is less than ten.
4. To facilitate exchange among trade members, all winners and winning teams are required to attend the "Annual Technical Seminar cum Prize Presentation Ceremony of the Outstanding Registered Electrical Worker Awards Scheme 2017" to be held on 7 November 2017 to receive their prizes and may be invited to share with the attendees their proposal for enhancing electrical work safety at site.
5. All EMSD staff and family members of the adjudicators are not allowed to participate in the selection.
6. The Organizer reserves the right to make final decisions on matters or any disputes related to the selection.
7. The winners may be interviewed by the Electricity News or other media as required.
8. The Organizer and collaborating organizations may announce the results of the selection (including the names of the winners and their employers) in their publications or websites without prior notification.
9. The participants’ status as registered electrical contractors or registered electrical workers will not be affected by the results of the selection.
10. All the information received, and the answer sheets used and collected in the written test at the first stage will be destroyed after the selection.

Enquiries

For enquiries, please contact the organizing committee of the Outstanding Registered Electrical Worker Awards Scheme 2017 at 2808 3438.