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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1988
"NO OTHER MEASURES ARE
THEREFORE
то REQUIRED
PROTECT
THESE
OPERATORS," MR WONG SAID.
ANGLE, THE
LABOUR
HAD
DEPARTMENT DISPLAY UNITS"
HOWEVER, FROM AN ADVISORY PUBLISHED A FREE BOOKLET ON "HEALTH ASPECTS OF VISUAL WHICH CONTAINED DETAILED INFORMATION AND ADVICE ON THE SUBJECT.
HONG HOURS ON
MR WONG SAID NO SYSTEMATIC STUDY HAD BEEN UNDERTAKEN IN KONG ON THE EFFECT OF OPERATING COMPUTER TERMINALS FOR LONG THE HEALTH OF OPERATORS.
OF VISUAL PAINS
EXTENSIVE OVERSEAS STUDIES HAD FOUND THAT OPERATORS DISPLAY UNITS SOMETIMES COMPLAINED OF EYE STRAIN, HEADACHES AND IN THE NECK, SHOULDER AND BACK.
CAUSED BY ENVIRONMENT,
EYE
AND STRAIN
OF LIGHTING
THE ON
ARE
HEADACHES
THE WORKING SCREEN, POOR
STUDIES, "ACCORDING TO THESE
AS INADEQUATE SUCH FACTORS
THR SMALL SIZE OF CHARACTERS ADJUSTMENT OF BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST, AND FLICKERING CAUSED BY THE POOR QUALITY OF THE VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT," HE SAID.
ON THE SCREEN
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"NECK, SHOULDER AND INCORRECT POSTURE, POOR CHAIR STATION.
BACK
PAINS
DESIGN
ARE LARGELY OR POOR LAYOUT
THE
OF
RESULT
THE
OF
WORK
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CONDUCTED SAID, "THE STUDIES MR WONG 'AS REGARDS RADIATION,
BY A VISUAL DISPLAY OVERSEAS HAVE SHOWN THAT THE RADIATION EMITTED UNIT IS VERY LOW, SO LOW THAT IT POSES NO HARMFUL EFFECT TO HEALTH.'
TARGET DATES FOR INCINERATORS TO CLOSE DOWN
THE KENNEDY TOWN INCINERATOR SHOULD
BE CLOSED DOWN IN
1992
OF WHILE THE LAI CHI KOK PLANT WILL BE SHUT DOWN IN PHASES-AT THE END
NEW WHEN
FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE TO THIS YEAR AND IN LATE 1990, DISPOSE OF WASTE WHICH IS NOW BEING BURNED THERE.
IN
AND WELFARE, THE THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR HEALTH HON JOHN CHAMBERS, IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON CHUNG PUI-LAM THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
URBAN ΤΟ
AREAS,
FROM
THREE LARGE
WHICH LANDFILL
IN
BR REFUSE TRANSFER WASTE WOULD BE SITES
THE NEW
MR CHAMBERS SAID THE NEW FACILITIES WOULD
LOCATED IN IN BULK
STATIONS
TRANSPORTED TERRITORIES.
"DETAILED DESIGN FOR THE FIRST OF
THE LANDFILLS,
LOCATED
AT
NIM WAN IN THE WESTERN NEW TERRITORIES HAS JUST BEGUN," HE SAID,
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