302
Appendix IV
(Chapter 2: Employment)
Factory registrations and inspections, 1968
Applications received for registration
•
Registration certificates issued
2,581 1,826
J
...
Applications refused (premises unsuitable)
Applications withdrawn
Factories closed and Registration Certificates surrendered
Places of employment registered at December 31 *Factories 'recorded' at December 31
J
Routine visits by inspectorate for enforcement of safety, health and
welfare provisions
Inspections in connection with industrial or occupational accidents
and workmen's compensation
6
296
...
681
8,454
3,825
+
50,347
2,135
Visits for wage enquiries
259
...
...
Visits about employment of women and young persons
21,630
+
Night visits to enforce regulations on employing women and young-
persons at prohibited hours
...
15,155
Visits in connection with enforcement of the Industrial Employment
(Holidays with Pay and Sickness Allowance) Ordinance
3,267
Fi
* Undertakings which do not require to be registered as factories but are inspected by the
Labour Department staff.
Appendix V
(Chapter 2: Employment)
I
Industrial and occupational accidents, 1968
Persons involved
Deaths
Persons injured in registrable workplaces
Deaths in registrable workplaces
*Total accidents reported and investigated
(1967 total 8,633)
Accident rate per 1,000 industrial workers
(1967 rate 11.19)
Fatality rate per 1,000 industrial workers
*
(1967 rate 0.055)
:
9,241
130
...
5,285
31
9,241
10.49
0.061
·
An accident involving two or more persons is recorded as a separate accident for each person involved.