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More details requested about medicine, labour welfare and environmental control. (SR 162 Paragraph 4)
Medicine
The provision of medical and health services in Hong Kong is the responsibility of the Medical and Health Department. It operates hospitals and clinics throughout the urban and rural areas. It undertakes the control of communicable diseases and provides various preventive and personal health services such as family health, school health, mental health, industrial health and port health. Its development is geared towards a balanced provision of primary health care, treatment and rehabilitation as well as a certain amount of sophisticated services.
Labour Welfare
In Hong Kong the promotion of industrial health and safety is achieved by the following approaches, namely to adopt and enforce legislative measures; to advise and assist factory management in accident prevention; and through safety education and publicity. list of safety regulations is at the appendix.
The Factory Inspectorate is responsible for enforcing the safety regulations by inspections to industrial undertakings and accident investigations.. In 1986, the Factory Inspectorate carried out 75,180 such inspections.
The Factory Inspectorate gives advice and assistance to factory management on the prevention of industrial accidents and the promotion of industrial safety.
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To foster safety awareness in industry, the tripartite Industrial Safety and Health Committee of the Labour Advisory Board and its six industry-based safety sub-committees organise a wide variety of promotional activities. These committees bring together representatives of employers, employees and the government to work for the common objective of improving safety in industry.
The Industrial Safety Training Centre of the Labour Department offers safety training courses and conducts talks on safety to management, workers, apprentices as well as students. All safety training courses and talks are free of charge.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic and the Labour Department in 1986 jointly organised five one-year part-time certificate courses on industrial accident prevention and safety management techniques for personnel at supervisory and middle management level in industry. In addition, the Labour Department assists the Construction Industry Training Authority to organise two one-year part-time certificate courses to train safety officers for the construction industry.
Publicity on accident prevention is being carried out through television and the mass media; safety-posters are put on display in factories, construction sites and public places. The Labour