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Japanese contractor strikes gold in safety award
Aoki Corporation has taken four of the six gold awards of the 1995 Airport Core Programme (ACP) Construction Safety Award Scheme organised by the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office (NAPCO) to promote safety among contractors and their workers.
And the sites with the best safety records last year were for contracts on Tung Chung, West Kowloon Reclamation and North Lantau.
The winners of the gold and other awards were honoured by the NAPCO at an award presentation ceremony at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre this (Thursday) afternoon for implementing sound safety management systems to ensure that construction work was carried out in a safe manner.
Speaking at the ceremony, the Chairman of Consultative Committee on the New Airport and Related Projects (ACC), Mr Hu Fa-kuang, called upon the award winners to keep up their good efforts, saying that they had set a very good example for others to follow.
He was pleased that stringent safety requirements had been incorporated into ACP contracts and other complementary safety measures had been introduced with the aim to achieving a high safety standard for ACP.
"So far, the ACP safety record is among the best when compared with other construction sectors in Hong Kong, and an improving trend is being maintained," he said.
However, he cautioned against complacency and called on ACP contractors to continue to do all they could to achieve a safety record that everyone could be proud of.
Mr Hu said one of ACC's key concerns was the industrial safety of the workers at various ACP sites, and the consultative committee's Planning, Environment and People's Livelihood Sub-committee had on numerous occasions discussed and advised the Government on this subject.
"ACC members, including myself, firmly believe that the safety of workers must take priority over programme and cost considerations," he stressed.
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