FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1988

THE

MILLION 2.7

WORKERS

WHO CONFRONTED

WERE

DR CHIU POINTED OUT THAT SPENDING AT LEAST EIGHT HOURS A DAY IN THE WORKPLACE, WERE WITH VARIOUS HAZARDS TO HEALTH.

RECENT

BECOMING WERE

DIVERSIFICATION OF INDUSTRY IN MORE AND MORE SUBSTANCES

HE NOTED THAT WITH THE RAPID

PRODUCTION PROCESSES YEARS, BOPHISTICATED AND NEW KINDS OF RAW MATERIALS AND CHEMICAL WERE NOW IN USE WHICH UNDOUBTEDLY AFFECTED WORKERS' HEALTH.

LAW

IDENTIFIES

DISEASES FOR WHICH COMPENSATION IS PAYABLE.

37

TYPES OF

OCCUPATIONAL

"AT PRESENT, THE

"BUT I BELIEVE THAT

AS TECHNOLOGY

DISEASES WILL DISEASES.

HAVE

ΤΟ

BB

INCLUDED

IN THE

DEVELOPS,

LIST

MORE TYPES OF OCCUPATIONAL

OF

"IT IS FAIR TO SAY, THEREFORE, INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES, OCCUPATIONAL OVERLOOKED," DR CHIU SAID.

THAT WITH THESE ADVANCES IN

AND SAFETY

HEALTH

NOT MUST

BE

THE EXHIBITION, WHICH IS BEING HELD AT THE SHING, WAS JOINTLY OPENED BY DR CHIU, MR HAMMOND, EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR RON BRIDGE, MEDICAL SERVICES, DR S.H. LEE.

AND

THE

TAIKOO CITYPLAZA IN

THE SECRETARY FOR DEPUTY

OF DIRECTOR

THE IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYERS AND AND HAZARDS MEASURES WHICH CAN

IT IS AIMED TO ENHANCE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF

ACQUAINT OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE, AND TO

HEALTH OCCUPATIONAL WORKERS WITH THE VARIOUS OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES, AS WELL AS THE PREVENTIVE BE TAKEN.

THROUGH VISUAL AND AUDIO DISPLAYS, MEMBERS OF THE COMMON BE ABLE TO GET A BETTER PICTURE OF THE NINE MOST

INDUSTRY IN HONG HAZARDS AND DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH INCLUDE SILICOSIS, DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS, INFLAMMATION AND GAS POISONING.

PUBLIC WILL OCCUPATIONAL

KONG. THESE OF THE SKIN

TO B PM THE EXHIBITION WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FROM 10 AM

11 AM FROM

ΤΟ 7 PM DAILY TOMORROW (SATURDAY) AND ON SUNDAY, AND BETWEEN MARCH 21 AND 24.

TAC MEMBERS APPOINTED

TAM AS CHAIRMAN OF TWO YEARS FROM

THE GOVERNOR HAS RE-APPOINTED MISS MARIA THE TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE (TAC) FOR A TERM OF APRIL 1 THIS YEAR.

VINCENT THIS MONTH

A NEW MEMBER, MR STEVEN POON KWOK-LIM, WILL REPLACE MR LO WHO WILL BE RETIRING FROM THE COMMITTEE AT THE END OF AFTER TWO YEARS' SERVICE.

/MR POON,

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