Thursday, June 14, 1973
REDUCING ACCIDENT RISKS IN SHIPBUILDING AND
SHIPREPAIRING INDUSTRIES
A comprehensive manual of safe working practices has been
produced by the Marine Department in an effort to reduce the risk of
accidents in Hong Kong's shipbuilding and ship-repairing industries.
The guide aims at establishing a high degree of safety throughout
these industries.
It lists a wide variety of potential hazards and
furnishes practical advice on ways to overcome them.
It was prepared by a working party comprising representatives
of the Marine, Labour and Fire Services departments, and shipping, shipbuilding
and ship-repair companies.
The working party was set up in September 1971 following a
number of explosions and fires in recent years on board ships, either
under construction or repair.
The new code of safe working practices incorporates an earlicr
volume released in October last year, and is being published as one
consolidated volume.
Fallowing a recommendation by the Commission of Inquiry which
investigated the fire on board the "Jumbo" floating restaurant in October 1971,
an Industrial Safety Division is to be set up within the Marine Department.
This recommendation was endorsed by the Marine Court investigating
the "Seawise University" fire last year, and accepted by the government.
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