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Tuesday, February 20, 1973
MANAGEMENT HAS LEGAL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
To Provide Safe Work Place For Employees
津津津
The Industrial Safety Training Officer of the Labour Department,
Mr. A.H. Carter, today told a meeting of some of Hong Kong's top management
executives that they had a legal and moral responsibility to provide a safe
place for their employees to work.
Too often, he said, both management and workers seemed to regard
accidents as something which "just happened".
"This widely-held belief is false and must be dispelled," he said.
"Every accident has a cause or a series of causes.
remedies.
"Therefore it is logical to assume that there must be a remedy or
"In general, all industrial accidents result from unsafe physical
conditions or unsafe acts by an individual."
Mr. Carter was addressing today's luncheon meeting at the Mandarin
Hotel of the Personnel Management Club of Hong Kong, an offspring of the Hong
Kong Management Association.
Mr. Carter told the executives that last year 121 industrial workers
were killed, and 18,992 accidents involving bodily injuries were reported to
the Labour Department.
If occupational accidents in spheres outside of industrial undertakings
were included in the figure, it leapt to 296 deaths and 29,343 accidents involving
bodily injuries.
/Mr. Carter