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Tuesday, August 14, 1973
INDUSTRIAL SAFETY TRAINING
Some 120 safety training courses are being offered by the
Labour Department in an effort to reduce the number of industrial
deaths and injuries.
The courses, which began last month, aim at encouraging both
employers and workers to take up various working safety measures.
A spokesman for the Industrial Undertakings Unit of the Labour
Department said that last year 121 industrial workers were killed and
about 19,000 accidents involving bodily injuries were reported.
He urged managements of industrial undertakings to pay more
attention to their legal responsibility towards industrial safety within
their working places.
By the end of June this year, about 2,400 people attended various
courses conducted by the Unit, but more assistance from the management
level is needed in order to promote industrial safety.
"Top management involvement is essential if any accident prevention
programe is to succeed," the spokesman stressed.
The courses are mainly conducted in Cantonese and supplemented
by short films and practical demonstrations.
Subjects vary from 'working in confined spaces' to 'basic accident
prevention', and may last from one day to six weeks.
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