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TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1985

+PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES ADOPTED FOR STAFF ON DANGEROUS DUTIES ARE KEPT UNDER REVIEW TO ENSURE THAT ACCIDENTS ARE REDUCED TO A MINIMUM, + HE SAID.

CITING STATISTICS, DR CHAM SAID THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS SUSTAINED BY USD EMPLOYEES IN 1984 TOTALLED 1 470 - A DECREASE OF 13.7 PER CENT COMPARED WITH 1 705 IN 1983. LAST YEAR'S TOTAL ALSO REPRESENTED A 7.6 PER CENT DECREASE COMPARED WITH THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF 1 591 ACCIDENTS RECORDED OVER THE FIVE-YEAR PERIOD FROM 1979 TO 1983.

THE NUMBER OF FATAL CASES HAD DROPPED FROM FOUR IN 1980 TO ONE IN 1984.

+MEAT+ SYSTEM FOR NEW UC MARKETS

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NEWLY-BUILT UC MARKETS AND COOKED-FOOD CENTRES WILL BE EQUIPPED WITH THE MARKET ECONOMIC AIR TREATMENT (MEAT) SYSTEM TO ENHANCE THE VENTILATION THERE.

AT ITS MONTHLY OPEN MEETING TODAY, MEMBERS WERE TOLD THAT EIGHT MARKET COMPLEXES EITHER UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR ACTIVE PLANNING WILL BE EQUIPPED WITH SUCH A SYSTEM.

THESE INCLUDE THE MARKETS IN KIMBERLEY ROAD AND SHEUNG FUNG STREET AND THOSE IN THE WESTERN COMPLEX, LOCKHART ROAD COMPLEX, FA YUEN STREET COMPLEX, KOWLOON CITY COMPLEX, SHUI WO STREET COMPLEX AND PO ON ROAD COMPLEX.

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE URBAN COUNCIL EXPLAINED THAT THE MEAT SYSTEM IS A FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXISTING +PUSH-PULL+ MECHANICAL VENTILATION SYSTEM UNDER WHICH FRESH AIR IS +PUSHED+ IN AT ONE SIDE OF THE BUILDING AND USED AIR EXTRACTED AT THE OTHER SIDE.

THE MEAT SYSTEM WILL SEE THAT BEFORE THE AIR FROM OUTSIDE IS INTRODUCED THROUGH AN INLET, IT WILL BE COOLED DOWN TO APPROXIMATELY 20 TO 25 DEGREES CELSIUS.

+BY AIMING THE PRE-COOLED AIR AT THE CEILING FANS, IT CAN THEN BE DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE MARKET, THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

/+ALTHOUGH THE