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of fire safety in industry. The working party on
the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance is continuing
its review, and will draw up recommendations soon. I
shall leave the Commissioner for Labour to give details
of these.
38 Our compliance with International Labour Conventions
continued to improve. 40 Conventions have been applied in
full or with modifications. This represents an increase
of 11 since 1974 and we hope to be able to improve our
declarations in respect of a further six by 1980. In this
respect Hong Kong compares very favourably with other
countries in this region.
39
Turning to industrial training the newly established
clothing industry and construction industry training
centres proved to be popular and successful. The Hong
Kong Training Council has therefore recommended a number
of additional training schemes in other industries to be
financed by a general levy, and administered by a
statutory training council. These recommendations are
now being considered by the Government.
Also on
the recommendation of the Training Council, a further
eight trades have been designed under the Apprenticeship
Ordinance during the year.
40 I intend soon to appoint further training boards