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Compensation Ordinance, 1953, which lays down minimum rates of compensation payable to workmen for injuries received in the course of their work. Experience indicates that amendments to the ordinance may be desirable, and these are at present under consideration.
During the year 82 cases of fatal accidents and 4,948 cases of non-fatal accidents were settled. A total of $1,761,258.75 was paid as compensation, of which $590,601.66 was awarded by the District Courts to dependants of workmen killed in industrial accidents.
Industrial Training. A Supervisory Training Section was set up in the Labour Department at the end of 1958 to offer training in supervisory techniques to representatives of Government and local industrial and commercial concerns. During 1959 the Section intro- duced training courses in the giving of clear instructions (job instruction), and the efficient organization of work (job methods). These programmes were carried out in both English and Chinese. Preparations were made for the introduction of training in rela- tionships at work (job relations), and in accident prevention (job safety). These four courses comprise the internationally recognized programme of Training within Industry.
Training is done primarily through the medium of trainers who attend a course at the Supervisory Training Centre and then return to their own organizations to run courses for supervisors. For the benefit of organizations which do not wish to employ their own trainers the Section also offers courses for supervisors.
Support for the training scheme was good. Within six months of its inauguration over 100 supervisors in the Colony were attending courses each month either on the premises of their employers or at the Supervisory Training Centre of the Labour Department.
In December, a five-day study course for management on indus- trial relations was organized by the University of Hong Kong and the Labour Department. This was attended by twenty five repre- sentatives of the managements of local industrial and commercial concerns. The course, an experimental one, was designed to in- dicate to participants the problems existing in this field, to suggest ways of dealing with them, and to facilitate an exchange of views on these matters in the light of their own experiences. The course