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"I therefore appeal to you all, workers, contractors, consultants and government staff alike, to increase your safety endeavours in every way possible," he urged.
Mr Kwong said besides a series of safety management measures introduced in the past, the Government had made further efforts on ACP projects last year. These included:
More staff have been assigned by works agents to strengthen monitoring of contractors' activities;
Labour Department has further expanded its special team responsible for enforcing safety legislation at ACP sites and conducting safety talks for the management and supervisory staff of contractors;
Fire Services Department has conducted fire safety talks for contractors' safety officers;
Marine Department has conducted marine industrial safety talks for workers and supervisory staff on board vessels at ACP sites; and
NAPCO has arranged for the display of safety materials at ACP sites.
The Gold, Silver and Bronze ACP Construction Safety Management Awards were presented by Mr Hu, Mr Kwong and the Director of NAPCO, Mr Billy Lam, respectively.
The other prizes of the ACP Construction Safety Record Award and the ACP Construction Safety Promotion Award were presented by the Chairman of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Employees General Union, Mr Poon To-chuen; the Vice President of the Hong Kong Construction Association, Mr David Gem; the Chairman of the Occupational Safety and Health Council, Professor Leung Ping-chung; the Commissioner for Labour, Mr Stephen Ip; and the Director of Fire Services, Mr Peter Cheung.
The full list of winners are:
ACP Construction Safety Management Awards
Gold Award:
Silver Award:
Bronze Award:
Meritorious Awards:
Aoki Corporation; Kumagai-Macda-CRABC JV; China State-Leighton-Hochtief JV; Airport Platform Contractors JV, Aoki Corporation, and
Dragages et Travaux Publics.