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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1987
A SAFETY VOLUNTARY
SPEAKING AT A DINNER MEETING OF THE KWUN TONG ROTARY CLUB THIS EVENING, MR CHAN SAID THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT HAD SET UP PROGRAMME PROMOTION UNIT IN
THIS YEAR ΤΟ PROMOTE SAFETY MOVEMENT IN INDUSTRIES.
APRIL
SENSE OF
STRONG "ITS MAIN TASIS ARE TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP A SELF-REGULATORY RESPONSIBILITY AMONG EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND ACCIDENT PREVENTION AT WORK, AND TO ADVISE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF IN-PLANT SAFETY
OF COMMITTEES, ORGANISATION SAFETY PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENT OF EFFECTIVE SAFETY MANAGEMENT, MR C'HAN SAID.
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"IT IS HOPED THAT THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF THE UNIT, EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES COULD DEVELOP A COMMON INTEREST IN FOSTERING A RIGHT ATTITUDE OF MIND FAVOURABI E TO SAFE PRACTICE IN THE WORKPLACE.
MORE THAN SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNIT, IT HAS VISITED
AND 60 SIZEABLE FACTORIES
CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES AND ASSISTED 22 HEALTH IN-PLANT SAFETY COMMITTEES TO REVIEW AND PLAN THEIR SAFETY AND
OF PROGRAMMES FOR WORKERS. THE PROPRIETORS
THESE ORGANISATIONS HAD GENERALLY ACCEPTED THE PROPOSED PLANS PUT FORWARD BY THE UNIT.
1T MR CHAN SAID THAT WHILE
WAS IMPORTANT FOR EMPLOYERS TO PROVIDE A SAFE WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND ADEQUATE TRAINING FOR THEIR WITH THEIR EMPLOYEES, IT WAS EQUALLY VITAL FOR WORKERS TO CO-OPERATE
BY OBSERVING EMPLOYERS IN IMPLEMENTING SAFETY MEASURES, FOR EXAMPLE, NO-SMOKING SIGNS, BY WEARING PROTECTIVE CLOTHINGS PROVIDED AND BY MOVING THE GUARDS FROM MACHINERIES.
NOT
OBSERVED,
BE GREATLY
THE
"IF POINTS SUCH AS THESE WERE SCRUPULOUSLY
BREAKING THE LAW WILL ACCIDENT RATE AND THE CHANCE OF REDUCED," HE ADDED.
TOUCHED MR CHAN FURTHER
ON THE INDUSTRIAL SAFETY TRAINING TRAINING COURSES CENTRE OF THE DEPARTMENT WHICH PROVIDED FREE SAFETY
THAN FOR MORE
EMPLOYEES, 7,000
MANAGEMENT
AND PERSONNEL
WORKERS
DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR.
HE CALLED ON ALL
EMPLOYERS TO MAKE
PROVIDED BY THE SAFETY PROGRAMME PROMOTION
SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE SO HEALTH AT WORK.
AS ΤΟ IMPROVE
USE OF THE FACILITIES UNIT AND THE INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS OF
SAFETY
AND
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