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the routine duties of the division. Also undertaken are medical examinations, including X-rays and pathological investigations, of workers exposed to risk of lead, radiation, or fluoride toxicity.
Under the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance, the division has responsibilities for the clinical examination, case work, and medical assessment of injured workers. This important service operates principally from the casualty departments of the Queen Mary Hospital, the Tang Shiu Kin Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Kwong Wah Hospital, although many visits to homes and workplaces are made by the health visitors of the division.
The report of the Committee on Air Pollution in Hong Kong was published in August. Training of staff for the New Air Pollu- tion Control Unit began in November and it is expected that Smoke Inspectors will start carrying out field work in February 1971. The number of monitoring stations for air pollution is now 28. In December the Committee on Air Pollution was reconstituted as a standing advisory committee.
The factory inspectorate of the Industry Division of the Labour Department is responsible, under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, for the safety of workers employed in factories and industrial undertakings. Advice and assistance are given to management on ways and means of guarding dangerous parts of machinery, adopting safe working practices, and general layout of factories to achieve safe working conditions.
During the year the scope and activities of the Industrial Safety Training Centre were further expanded. Officers of its staff continued to give lectures to students at various technical and vocational training centres. The centre also helps to organise safety committees and prepares booklets and posters on industrial safety.
In February, the Industrial Safety Training Centre, the Fire Services Department and agents and manufacturers of protective equipment jointly organised the first exhibition of industrial pro- tective equipment in Hong Kong. This was followed in August and September by three smaller exhibitions in Kwun Tong, San Po Kong and Tsuen Wan and a final exhibition in the City Hall.