SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1989
NEED FOR EYE PROTECTION STRESSED
* * *
THE PUBLIC ARE PROVIDED ADOPT APPROPRIATE LABOUR. MR TONY HAMMOND,
MOST EYE INJURIES CAN BE AVOIDED IF WITH SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EYE PROTECTION AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES. THE COMMISSIONER FOR SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
EXHIBITION 3.772
HANDLED
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE EYE-CARE SEMINAR AND
NOTED
THE THAT
LABOUR DEPARTMENT 1989. MR HAMMOND COMPENSATION CASES FOR EYE INJURIES AT WORK LAST YEAR.
BY
FLYING OBJECTS, COULD HAVE BREN
HE SAID.
"MOST OF THESE INJURIES WERE CAUSED CORROSIVE CHEMICALS AND WELDING RADIATION, AND MANY PREVENTED IF PROPER SAFETY PRECAUTIONS HAD BEEN OBSERVED.
PL
PUBLICITY AND
MR HAMMOND SAID THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT ORGANISED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES ON EYE PROTECTION ON A REGULAR BASIS.
CASES OF
WORKERS SUFFERING FROM OF REGULATIONS FOR
"TO MINIMISE THE NUMBER OF SUCH ACCIDENTS. THE DEPARTMENT HAS ENACTED A SET THE PROTECTION OF EYES. HE ADDED.
T
HE DESCRIBED THE EXHIBITION AS "A MEANINGFUL EVENT".
THE
EXHIBITION
15 ORGANISED
THE
BY JOINTLY
HONG KONG BLINDNESS. THE LABOUR FEDERATION OF SOCIETIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF
PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS DEPARTMENT AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO OF THE NEED TO PREVENT EVE INJURIES AT HOME. IN SPORTS AND AT WORK.
DR S.H. ALSO SPEAKING AT THE CEREMONY. THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH,
ACCIDENTS WERE ON THE LEF. POINTED OUT THAT EYE INJURIES CAUSED BY
TAKE DUE INCREASE. AND THAT THEY WERE MAINLY DUE TO FAILURE TO AND NEGLIGENCE OF HEALTH AND SAFETY RULES.
CARE
THE
VARIOUS
DR LEE STRESSED THAT THE CENTRAL HEALTH EDUCATION UNIT OF DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HAD BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN THE PROMOTION OF FORMS OF HEALTH EDUCATION ON EYE CARE SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1978.
"HENCE.
OF FEDERATION
SOCIETIES
THE
to
LABOUR DEPARTMENT HE SAID.
IN
IT HAS JOINED HANDS WITH THE PREVENTION
AND OF BLINDNESS THE LAUNCHING THE CAMPAIGN ONCE AGAIN THIS YEAR.
FOR
FOR ITS EMPHASIS ON THE DR LEE ALSO PRAISED THE EXHIBITION
EMPLOYERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
THE GOVERNMENT IN PREVENTING EYE INJURIES. BESIDES PROVIDING INFORMATION ON EYE
LEGISLATION.
ATTENTION.
WORKERS. OF
EVE INJURIES AND THE
IMPORTANCE
OF PROMPT
SAFETY MEDICAL
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