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SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1989

NEED FOR EYE PROTECTION STRESSED

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THE PUBLIC ARE PROVIDED ADOPT APPROPRIATE LABOUR. MR TONY HAMMOND,

MOST EYE INJURIES CAN BE AVOIDED IF WITH SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT EYE PROTECTION AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES. THE COMMISSIONER FOR SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).

EXHIBITION 3.772

HANDLED

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE EYE-CARE SEMINAR AND

NOTED

THE THAT

LABOUR DEPARTMENT 1989. MR HAMMOND COMPENSATION CASES FOR EYE INJURIES AT WORK LAST YEAR.

BY

FLYING OBJECTS, COULD HAVE BREN

HE SAID.

"MOST OF THESE INJURIES WERE CAUSED CORROSIVE CHEMICALS AND WELDING RADIATION, AND MANY PREVENTED IF PROPER SAFETY PRECAUTIONS HAD BEEN OBSERVED.

PL

PUBLICITY AND

MR HAMMOND SAID THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT ORGANISED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES ON EYE PROTECTION ON A REGULAR BASIS.

CASES OF

WORKERS SUFFERING FROM OF REGULATIONS FOR

"TO MINIMISE THE NUMBER OF SUCH ACCIDENTS. THE DEPARTMENT HAS ENACTED A SET THE PROTECTION OF EYES. HE ADDED.

T

HE DESCRIBED THE EXHIBITION AS "A MEANINGFUL EVENT".

THE

EXHIBITION

15 ORGANISED

THE

BY JOINTLY

HONG KONG BLINDNESS. THE LABOUR FEDERATION OF SOCIETIES FOR THE PREVENTION OF

PROMOTE PUBLIC AWARENESS DEPARTMENT AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO OF THE NEED TO PREVENT EVE INJURIES AT HOME. IN SPORTS AND AT WORK.

DR S.H. ALSO SPEAKING AT THE CEREMONY. THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH,

ACCIDENTS WERE ON THE LEF. POINTED OUT THAT EYE INJURIES CAUSED BY

TAKE DUE INCREASE. AND THAT THEY WERE MAINLY DUE TO FAILURE TO AND NEGLIGENCE OF HEALTH AND SAFETY RULES.

CARE

THE

VARIOUS

DR LEE STRESSED THAT THE CENTRAL HEALTH EDUCATION UNIT OF DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HAD BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN THE PROMOTION OF FORMS OF HEALTH EDUCATION ON EYE CARE SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1978.

"HENCE.

OF FEDERATION

SOCIETIES

THE

to

LABOUR DEPARTMENT HE SAID.

IN

IT HAS JOINED HANDS WITH THE PREVENTION

AND OF BLINDNESS THE LAUNCHING THE CAMPAIGN ONCE AGAIN THIS YEAR.

FOR

FOR ITS EMPHASIS ON THE DR LEE ALSO PRAISED THE EXHIBITION

EMPLOYERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

THE GOVERNMENT IN PREVENTING EYE INJURIES. BESIDES PROVIDING INFORMATION ON EYE

LEGISLATION.

ATTENTION.

WORKERS. OF

EVE INJURIES AND THE

IMPORTANCE

OF PROMPT

SAFETY MEDICAL

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