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WORK,

AT OF CONCENTRATION

ACCORDING TO THE WHO AND MANY EXPERTS IN THIS FIELD, SBS REFERS TO A GROUP OF SYMPTOMS WHICH PEOPLE EXPERIENCE SPECIFICALLY THE TYPICAL SYMPTOMS BEING HEADACHE, LETHARGY, LOSS AND IRRITATION OF THE EYES, NOSE, THROAT AND SKIN.

ILLNESS

MANY PROPOSED EXPLANATIONS OF SBS AND BUILDING RELATED

THE VENTILATION SYSTEMS, (BRI) HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD. THESE INCLUDE

PLANNING AND CHOICE INDOOR AIR QUALITY, NOISE, LIGHTING, POOR SPACE

INAPPROPRIATE USE OF SYNTHETIC OR OF OFFICE FURNITURE MATERIALS, STATIC ELECTRICITY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS.

EQUIPMENT,

IN SPITE OF THE VAST AMOUNT OF STUDIES

AND RESEARCH EFFORTS, OR CAUSES

DR LEE SAID, IT IS STILL DIFFICULT TO INFER SPECIFIC CAUSE OF SBS.

THE SYMPOSIUM

MAY THROW SOME LIGHT ON THE HE HOPED THAT EPIDEMIOLOGY OF SBS AND THE FORM OF 'CURES' THAT SHOULD BE MADE.

ACTION ON WORK SAFETY TO BE STEPPED UP

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THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT IS

STEPPING UP

ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES AND PROPRIETORS WHO IGNORE AGAINST INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT BLACK SPOTS

MORE SUMMONSES AND SAFETY IN THEIR DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT CAN EXPECT

SAID STIFFER PENALTIES, THE COMMISSIONER FOR LABOUR, MR TONY HAMMOND, TODAY (TUESDAY).

MR HAMMOND MADE SUCH REMARKS AT THE OPENING ON SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT ORGANISED BY THE JAPAN INDUSTRIAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ASSOCIATION.

OF THE SYMPOSIUM DEPARTMENT AND

THE

AND HE SUGGESTED THAT TO AVOID ALL THIS COSTLY

TIME-CONSUMING OF SELF-REGULATION LITIGATION, PROPRIETORS SHOULD INTRODUCE A SYSTEM

PROBLEMS AND TAKE REMEDIAL ACTION AND ROUTINE INSPECTION TO SPOT "BEFORE OUR FACTORY INSPECTORS CONDUCT THEIR INSPECTIONS".

WILL PROPRIETORS

DUTIES PROVISIONS UNDERTAKINGS ORDINANCE

ΤΟ

"WITH THE COMING INTO EFFECT OF THE GENERAL IN SECTION 6A OF THE FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL

HAVE A STATUTORY ON DECEMBER 15,

OBLIGATION WORKPLACE, TO PROVIDE INTRODUCE A SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN THEIR

AND ΤΟ MAKE SAFETY EDUCATION AND SAFETY TRAINING FOR THEIR WORKERS, THE WORKPLACE A SAFE PLACE TO WORK, HE ADDED.

TURNING TO

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CONSTRUCTION THE

INDUSTRY, REMAINED THE AREA OF GREATEST CONCERN, WITH A ACCIDENT RATE.

MR HAMMOND SAID IT "TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE"

THAT INDUSTRY

ROSE FROM AROUND

RATE ACCIDENT

THE

PER

1,000

"THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS IN 18,000 IN 1981 TO 26,000 IN 1989, AND CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ROSE FROM 204 IN 1981 TO 374 IN 1989," HE NOTED.

/CONCEDING THAT