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Thursday, September 27, 1973
Mr. Price said: "While I realise that ignorance, carelessness,
or perhaps indifference of workers and foremen may be major underlying
causes of accidents, I must point out that supervisors and foremen, and
indeed all members of amnagement, have a moral responsibility to teach the
ignorant, to give firm guidance to the careless, and to instil safety
consciousness in the indifferent."
To assist contractors to train their supervisors and foremen, the
Commissioner said, the Industrial Safety Training Centre of the Labour
Department would run a number of training courses specifically designed to
meet the needs of the construction industry.
He strongly advised those who had not applied for places on these
to do so without delay.
courses - offered by the Centre free of charge
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He said: "It is in the intereats of the contractors and in those
of the community that they should join forces with me to achieve in 1974 a
marke reduction in the appalling number of accidents occurring on
construction sites."
Release time: 7.00 p.m.