THE AIRPORT CORE PROGRAMME
Department conducted 29 safety talks on sites to explain to the contractors' management and supervisory staff the general duties provisions set out in the Factories and Industrial Undertaking Ordinance. To ensure that the safety message reaches workers on site, contractors are required to conduct regular safety training for their workers.
Efforts to improve compliance with safety requirements on ACP sites have also been stepped up. The Labour Department has expanded its special team that checks ACP projects' construction safety standards and more staff have been assigned by the works agents to manage construction safety matters at ACP sites.
In 1995, the industrial accident rate for ACP contracts was 63 reportable accidents per thousand workers per year, compared with the corresponding rate of 275 for the construction industry as a whole in 1994.
Community and Public Relations
A comprehensive programme of community and public relations activities was implemented throughout the year. For schools, seminars and briefings on the ACP projects were conducted and boat tours to the ACP sites were organised. An ACP exhibition-cum-competition for secondary schools was held in February 1995. The ACP teaching kit for primary schools first issued in early 1994 was updated and issued in October to tie in with the revision of the primary school syllabus.
In all, 11 ACP district exhibitions were organised throughout the territory in 1994 and 1995. Briefings were given to a wide range of audiences, both locally and overseas. ACP presentations were made at international forums including the APEC Transportation Working Group Meeting in Beijing; the Pacific Rim TransTech Conference in Seattle, USA; Airport, Communication & Environment '95 in Osaka, Japan; and the Hong Kong Promotion in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka. Tours of ACP sites were organised for groups including members of the Legislative Council; the Airport Consultative Committee; overseas government officials and parliamentary members; major business, professional and financial groups; consular representatives and the media.
Promotional publications included a brochure, a bilingual leaflet describing the whole range of projects, and regular issues of a newsletter and a fact sheet on the progress of works. In addition, press releases and photographs were issued throughout the year to highlight project milestones.
NAPCO has provided an ACP Exhibition Centre in Ting Kau, open to the public from January 1996. NAPCO also manages a Public Resource Centre in Causeway Bay which has a wide range of technical papers on the ACP as well as publicity materials and videos.
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