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MR YIP WAS ADDRESSING SOME TWO-DAY RESIDENTIAL SEMINAR IN MACAU.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1987

150 SAFETY OFFICERS

ATTENDING A

THE

EVENT

WHICH IS

AIMED AT

BNHANCING

UNDERSTANDING AND THE GOVERNMENT, CO-OPERATION BETWEEN SAFETY OFFICERS, MANAGEMENT AND

AND HEALTH IS JOINTLY ORGANISED BY THE HONG KONG OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY

ASSOCIATION, THE MACAU ASSOCIATION, THE HONG KONG INDUSTRIAL SAFETY LABOUR DEPARTMENT, AND THE FACTORY INSPECTORATE DIVISION OF THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT.

INDUSTRY, A

TO SPECIALIST OFFICER SITE OR CONSTRUCTION SITE

THE

UNDER THE REGULATIONS WHICH WOULD INITIALLY APPLY ONLY CONSTRUCTION

PRINCIPAL

OR CONTRACTOR

IS CONTRACTOR

TO REQUIRED

EMPLOY ONE REGISTERED SAFETY FULL-TIME IF HE EMPLOYS 200 OR MORE PEOPLE ON A CONSTRUCTION SITES, AND TO EMPLOY ONE SAFETY SUPERVISOR ON BACH ON WHICH HE EMPLOYS 20 OR MORE WORKERS.

BY A

WHERE SAFETY AND

"A SAFETY

HELPED OFFICER,

SAFETY SUPERVISOR APPROPRIATE, WOULD ASSIST THE PROPRIETOR IN PROMOTING THE HEALTH OF THOSE EMPLOYED," MR YIP SAID.

"HIS DUTIES WOULD INCLUDE INSPECTING PLANTS

SAFETY

ADVISING ON RISKS,

IDENTIFY

RECOMMENDATIONS ON ACCIDENT AND DANGEROUS OCCURRENCES.

AND EQUIPMENT TO MAKING MEASURES,

ACCIDENTS

PREVENTIVE PREVENTION AND INVESTIGATING

BE APPOINTED PERSUADE USING

"MOST IMPORTANT, BECAUSE THE SAFETY OFFICER WILL BY THE PROPRIETOR, HE WILL BE IN AN ADVANTAGEOUS POSITION TO

ON SITE AND CONVINCE OTHER EMPLOYEES

OF OF THE IMPORTANCE PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT AND OBSERVING SAFE WORK PRACTICES."

AS FOR THE SAFETY SUPERVISOR, HIS DUTIES WILL BE TO

SUPERVISE THE OBSERVANCE STANDARDS FOR WORKERS, SAFETY STANDARDS AND PROMOTE SAFETY AT WORK.

ADVISE ON

OF

SUCH

HIS SAFETY THE PROPRIETOR WILL ALSO BE OBLIGED TO ENSURE THAT

DUTIES PROPERLY AND OFFICERS AND SAFETY SUPERVISORS CARRY OUT THEIR

WITH ALL NECESSARY TO PROVIDE THEM

ASSISTANCE AND

ΤΟ FACILITIES

ACHIEVE THIS AIM.

THE SAFETY BR

"I EXPECT THAT THIS JOINT EFFORT OF THE PROPRIETOR, OFFICER AND THE EMPLOYEES CONCERNED WORKING TOGETHER WILL PROVE TO A MORE EFFECTIVE MEANS OF ENSURING SAFETY AT WORK," MR YIP OBSERVED.

(SATURDAY) BY THE TWO-DAY SEMINAR WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED TODAY

THE THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMICS OF MACAU, DR ANTONIO GALHARDO SIMOES;

HANMER WEBB-PEPLOE; AND THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF SHELL COMPANY, MR DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR LABOUR, MR HAROLD KWOK,

SAFETY

AMONG THE TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED ARE PROBLEMS FACED BY OFFICERS, THE FUNCTION OF SAFETY OFFICERS FROM THE MANAGEMENT POINT OF VIEW AND THE SPIRIT OF THE SAFETY OFFICERS REGULATIONS.

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