Thursday, July 20, 1972
MARINE INDUSTRIAL SAFETY SECTION TO BE FORMED
A Working Party comprising representatives of the shipping
industry and Government departments is now drawing up a Code of Safe
Working Practices concerning shipbuilding and ship-repairing activities.
The Code will comprise several sections, but it is intended to
produce first those sections dealing with precautions relevant to fire
and explosion prevention, and to distribute these amongst the industrial
sector at an early stage.
When completed, the Code will form the basis of new legislation,
which is already being given consideration.
A Marine Department spokesman said to ensure efficient control
being exercised for operations associated with the repair, renovation
and refitting of ships in Hong Kong waters, a new Industrial Safety
Division within the Department would need to be formed.
The Marine Court of Inquiry into the "Seawise University" fire
has recommended, inter alia, that the Director of Marine be given overall
control for such operations, and this recommendation has already been
accepted in principle by the Governor in Council.
The Court has also proposed that before the introduction of new
legislation, no repairs of any kind should be carried out aboard a
"dead ship" without permission from the Director of Marine.
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