Fr
6
Tuesday, March 26, 1974
FIRST-AID TRAINING FOR FACTORY HANDS
The Labour Department's Industrial Safety Training Centre
is arranging a special expanded series of first-aid training courses
to cope with an overwhelming response from industry for courses set
down for the next couple of months.
The Centre, working with the St. John Ambulance Association,
recently called for applications for three first-aid training courses
for employees in industry.
The courses, each requiring attendance at one morning session
a week for eight weeks, qualify successful candidates for recognition
as first-aid personnel under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings
(First Aid in Registrable Workplaces) Regulations, the Quarries (Safety)
Regulations and the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations.
The Centre was swamped with applications, and is now arranging
seven additional courses between now and July to cope with some 300
applicants from 128 factories and 20 construction firms.
More sessions are being planned for another 150 applicants
on the waiting list.
Assistant Commissioner of Labour Mr. David Lin today welcomed
the response to the courses as an indication that employers were becoming
more safety conscious.
/"This is