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Thursday, April 26, 1973

INDUSTRY URGED TO IMPLEMENT SAFETY MEASURES

In A Bid To Reduce Industrial Accidents

Prevention of accidents is of vital importance to an industrial

community such as Hong Kong, Mr. Szeto Wai, Legislative Councillor, said today.

He was speaking at the presentation ceremony marking the conclusion

of the first special training course for Industrial Safety Officers.

The six-week full-time course was organised by the Industrial Safety

Training Centre of the Labour Department. The course covered, in general,

all aspects of accident prevention.

Mr. Szeto told the meeting that industrial accidents were detrimental

to both workers and managements.

Accidents often resulted in painful suffering on the part of the

injured workmen and their family members. Managements, on the other hand,

suffered from great financial losses.

"It is therefore obvious that efforts must be made to reduce this

appalling waste of our human and financial resources," he said.

In a bid to reduce the number of industrial accidents, he said, the

Factory Inspectors of the Labour Department made regular inspections of all

work places to ensure compliance with the legal requirements.

"But their hard work was far from enough to serve as a complete

answer to a problem of such magnitude."

"Industry itself must take initiative to implement safety measures

within individual factories."

/He said that