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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1988

MORE SAFETY, LABOUR LAW OFFENDERS FINED

THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF PROSECUTIONS VARIOUS INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND LABOUR LAWS LAST YEAR.

UNDER THE

IN CONVICTIONS IN DURING

CASES RESULTED 1987, 3,861

$9 MILLION BEING IMPOSED COURTS WITH TOTAL FINES OF MORE OFFENDERS.

THE

THAN

ON

THESE FIGURES COMPARED WITH 3, FINES RECORDED IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

486 CASES AND

$6.6 MILLION

IN

THE

OF OF THE CONVICTIONS LAST YEAR, 2,026 CONCERNED BREACHES

ORDINANCE AND ITS SUBSIDIARY FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS REGULATIONS WITH FINES AMOUNTING TO MORE THAN $6.5 MILLION.

THE WOMEN

PERSONS AND YOUNG CASES CONCERNING VIOLATIONS OF

AND PRESSURE RECEIVERS BOILERS (INDUSTRY)

AND THE REGULATIONS

AND 138 (WITH ORDINANCE TOTALLED 1,661 (WITH $2.2 MILLION IN FINES) $236,700 IN FINES) RESPECTIVELY.

OTHER CASES WERE RELATED TO THE AND EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION REGULATIONS.

EMPLOYMENT, LABOUR RELATIONS

A LABOUR DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN TODAY (SUNDAY) SAID THE LEVEL FINES IN ALL TYPES OF PROSECUTIONS LAST YEAR HAD SHOWN AN INCREASE 38 PER CENT OVER THAT OF 1986.

FOR FACTORY AND CONSTRUCTION SITE SAFETY WAS 16.1 PER CENT. AS FOR CASES UNDER

OF

OF

CASES, THE INCREASE

THE WOMEN AND YOUNG PERSONS RECEIVERS AND 38.2 PER

AND THE REGULATIONS

BOILERS (INDUSTRY) ORDINANCE, THE LEVELS WERE INCREASED BY 23.1 CENT RESPECTIVELY,

AND PRESSURE

CENT PER

IN FINES AS "HEAVIER FINES

THE SPOKESMAN WELCOMED THE INCREASE WILL MAKE OFFENDERS TAKE SAFETY MORE SERIOUSLY".

HE REITERATED THAT THE DEPARTMENT WOULD CONTINUE TO CONCENTRATE ITS EFFORTS ON BRINGING THE MORE SERIOUS AND PERSISTENT JUSTICE.

OFFENDERS

TO

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