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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1985
+THESE AMENDMENTS HAVE BEEN VIGOROUSLY ENFORCED. OF 492 PROSECUTIONS IN 1984 FOR BREACHES OF CONSTRUCTION SITES REGULATIONS, 282 CASES WERE RELATED TO THIS AREA.+
ON EDUCATION, MR HENDERSON SAID, THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT'S INDUSTRIAL SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE CONDUCTED SAFETY COURSES SPECIFICALLY TAILORED TO THE NEEDS OF THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND ALSO TO ASSIST OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN RUNNING SIMILAR COURSES.
THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT RAN 40 COURSES LAST YEAR AND WERE ATTENDED BY SOME 850 PEOPLE.
MR HENDERSON SAID PUBLICITY WAS THE THIRD MAJOR WEAPON.
IN CONJUNCTION + IN RECENT YEARS, THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT -- WITH THE LABOUR ADVISORY BOARD'S COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND ACCIDENT PREVENTION AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS -- HAS CONDUCTED AN INTENSIVE PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN AIMED AT PROMOTING GOOD SAFETY PRACTICES AND INSTILLING A SENSE OF SAFETY-CONSCIOUSNESS AT WORK.+
+SAFETY IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY HAS FEATURED PROMINENTLY IN THIS EFFORT, HE SAID.
NOTING THAT STATISTICS OF FALLS FROM HEIGHT AS DISTINCT FROM THE MUCH LARGER CATEGORY OF FALLS OF PERSONS UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES WAS NOT AVAILABLE, MR HENDERSON SAID FATAL CASES WERE ALMOST ENTIRELY THE RESULT OF FALLS FROM HEIGHT AND THAT AROUND THREE-QUARTERS OF SUCH CASES OCCURRED IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.
+THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FATALITIES IS DECLINING
FROM 52 IN
1981 TO 24 IN 1984 AND TO 19 SO FAR THIS YEAR, + HE SAID.
+ACTION OF THE KIND HAVE DESCRIBED WILL CONTINUE TO BE TAKEN AND I TRUST THAT THIS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A FURTHER DECLINE IN FATALITIES CAUSED BY THIS TYPE OF ACCIDENT, HE ADDED.
NEW PROCEDURE TO APPROVE FILM ADVERTISING MATERIALS ****
A NEW PROCEDURE ALLOWING TWO CLEAR WORKING DAYS FOR THE COMMISSIONER FOR TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING TO APPROVE ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION MATERIALS RELATING TO FILMS TO BE SHOWN IN PUBLIC HAS BEEN INTRODUCED FROM NOVEMBER 1 THE CHIEF SECRETARY, THE HON SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
ALSO, A FORMAL RECORD OF REGISTERING THE MATERIALS SUBMITTED AND CONVEYING DETAILS OF THE DECISION WOULD BE INTRODUCED.
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