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FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1987

A SAFETY VOLUNTARY

SPEAKING AT A DINNER MEETING OF THE KWUN TONG ROTARY CLUB THIS EVENING, MR CHAN SAID THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT HAD SET UP PROGRAMME PROMOTION UNIT IN

THIS YEAR ΤΟ PROMOTE SAFETY MOVEMENT IN INDUSTRIES.

APRIL

SENSE OF

STRONG "ITS MAIN TASIS ARE TO PROMOTE AND DEVELOP A SELF-REGULATORY RESPONSIBILITY AMONG EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND ACCIDENT PREVENTION AT WORK, AND TO ADVISE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF IN-PLANT SAFETY

OF COMMITTEES, ORGANISATION SAFETY PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES AS WELL AS DEVELOPMENT OF EFFECTIVE SAFETY MANAGEMENT, MR C'HAN SAID.

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"IT IS HOPED THAT THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF THE UNIT, EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES COULD DEVELOP A COMMON INTEREST IN FOSTERING A RIGHT ATTITUDE OF MIND FAVOURABI E TO SAFE PRACTICE IN THE WORKPLACE.

MORE THAN SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNIT, IT HAS VISITED

AND 60 SIZEABLE FACTORIES

CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES AND ASSISTED 22 HEALTH IN-PLANT SAFETY COMMITTEES TO REVIEW AND PLAN THEIR SAFETY AND

OF PROGRAMMES FOR WORKERS. THE PROPRIETORS

THESE ORGANISATIONS HAD GENERALLY ACCEPTED THE PROPOSED PLANS PUT FORWARD BY THE UNIT.

1T MR CHAN SAID THAT WHILE

WAS IMPORTANT FOR EMPLOYERS TO PROVIDE A SAFE WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND ADEQUATE TRAINING FOR THEIR WITH THEIR EMPLOYEES, IT WAS EQUALLY VITAL FOR WORKERS TO CO-OPERATE

BY OBSERVING EMPLOYERS IN IMPLEMENTING SAFETY MEASURES, FOR EXAMPLE, NO-SMOKING SIGNS, BY WEARING PROTECTIVE CLOTHINGS PROVIDED AND BY MOVING THE GUARDS FROM MACHINERIES.

NOT

OBSERVED,

BE GREATLY

THE

"IF POINTS SUCH AS THESE WERE SCRUPULOUSLY

BREAKING THE LAW WILL ACCIDENT RATE AND THE CHANCE OF REDUCED," HE ADDED.

TOUCHED MR CHAN FURTHER

ON THE INDUSTRIAL SAFETY TRAINING TRAINING COURSES CENTRE OF THE DEPARTMENT WHICH PROVIDED FREE SAFETY

THAN FOR MORE

EMPLOYEES, 7,000

MANAGEMENT

AND PERSONNEL

WORKERS

DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR.

HE CALLED ON ALL

EMPLOYERS TO MAKE

PROVIDED BY THE SAFETY PROGRAMME PROMOTION

SAFETY TRAINING CENTRE SO HEALTH AT WORK.

AS ΤΟ IMPROVE

USE OF THE FACILITIES UNIT AND THE INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS OF

SAFETY

AND

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