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SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, 1988

PROPRIETORS URGED TO PREVENT ELECTRICAL HAZARDS

TO

THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT TODAY (SUNDAY) REMINDED PROPRIETORS

EXPOSURE TO TAKE ADEQUATE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT WORKERS FROM ELECTRICAL DANGER.

THIS FOLLOWED A RECENT COURT CASE RESULTING IN THE PROPRIETOR OF AN ELECTROPLATING FACTORY IN YAU TONG BEING FINED $15,000 BY A

ALL KWUN TONG MAGISTRATE FOR FAILING TO ENSURE THAT

LIVE CONDUCTORS

WERE INSULATED.

ELECTROCUTED

WHEN HE QUARTZ

SHEATH

ACCIDENTALLY

OF

AN

IN THE CASE, A WORKER WAS FELL INTO AN ELECTROPLATING TANK AND BROKE THE ELECTRIC HEATER USED FOR HEATING UP THE ELECTROLYTE.

A LABOUR DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THAT UNDER THE FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (ELECTRICITY) REGULATIONS, PROPRIETORS

UNDERTAKINGS INDUSTRIAL

MUST ENSURE

LIVE THAT ALL

CONDUCTORS, BE EFFECTIVELY INCLUDING THOSE FORMING PART OF THE APPARATUS, SHOULD INSULATED, AND PROTECTED, SO AS TO PREVENT ELECTRICAL HAZARDS.

THE SPOKESMAN EXPLAINED THAT AN ELECTRIC HEATER WITH A FRAGILE

IT 19 SHEATH CAN BE A SOURCE OF ELECTRICAL DANGER WHEN

IMMERSED IN

WATER OR ELECTROLYTE.

"TO AVOID POSSIBLE ELECTRICAL DANGER ARISING FROM ACCIDENTAL BE OF ADEQUATE STRENGTH OR THE HEATER BREAKAGE, THE SHEATH MUST ITSELF SHOULD BE APPROPRIATELY PROTECTED," HE SAID.

"ANYONE WHO CONTRAVENES ANY OF THE REGULATIONS IS LIABLE TO MAXIMUM FINE OF $30,000," HE ADDED.

A

ADVICE REGARDING THE SAFF USE OF ELECTRICITY BB SOUGHT FROM THE FACTORY INSPECTORATE OF THE LABOUR ITS REGIONAL OFFICES.

INDUSTRY IN

CAN DEPARTMENT AND

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