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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1991
"WE MUST KEEP TRYING TO WORK ON A WIDER AGREEMENT WHICH WILL ENABLE US TO FIND A WAY OUT OF THE PROBLEM, SIR DAVID SAID.
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THE CHIEP SECRETARY ALSO STRESSED THAT THE PROBLEM INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS WAS A SERIOUS ONE: "WE HAVE 100,000 PEOPLE HOSPITAL EVERY YEAR AS A RESULT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS. TWO-HUNDRED AND FORTY - FOUR PEOPLE DIED LAST YEAR AS A RESULT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS.
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"WE SIMPLY HAVE GOT TO IMPROVE THAT SITUATION WHICH IS A SOPHISTICATED PLACE, WE CANNOT GO ON WITH THAT LEVEL, HIGH LEVEL OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS,
HE ADDED,
AND
"WE ALL HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY; THE GOVERNMENT, THE EMPLOYERS THE EMPLOYEES. TOGETHER WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT
IT, AND I THINK THE MEDIA HAS A VERY IMPORTANT ROLE TO BRING IT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC GENERALLY,' SIR DAVID SAID.
CS STRESSES THE NEED TO PROMOTE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
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THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID FORD, TODAY (SATURDAY) SAID MUCH WILL NEED TO BE DONE TO PROMOTE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH, PARTICULARLY IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.
ADDRESSING THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH WEEK 1991, SIR DAVID SAID DESPITE CONTINUOUS EFFORTS HAD BEEN MADE
RECENT YEARS IN LEGISLATIVE CONTROL AND PUBLICITY EFFORTS AIMED AT FOSTERING A GREATER PUBLIC AWARENESS IN THESE MATTERS LT SREMED THAT WE HAD NOT DONE ENOUGH.
HE POINTED OUT THAT THE FIGURE FOR WORKER INJURY LAST YEAR WAS
DAUNTING.
"OVER 100,000 WORKERS WERE ADMITTED TO THE CASUALTY WARDS OF HOSPITALS IN CONNECTION WITH INJURIES SUSTAINED DURING WORK, OF WHICH 244 CASES HAD RESULTED IN FATALITY," HE SAID.
LOOKED AT THE FIGURE FROM PERSPECTIVE, THE CHIEF SECRETARY SAID ONE WAS TEMPTED TO SAY THAT THE FIGURE WAS ALREADY LOWER THAN THE FIGURE OF 124,000 INJURY CASES RECORDED FOR 1988.
**NO DOUBT, THE PROMOTIONAL EFFORTS IN THE HAVE HAD SOME SALUTARY COMPLACENCY.
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EFFECT. BUT THERE CAN BE NO CAUSE FOR
"MUCH MORE WILL NEED то BE DONE, PARTICULARLY CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY WHICH ALONE ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT 25 PER ALL OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS, HE STRESSED.
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