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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1991

FEWER SUMMER JOB STUDENTS INJURED

*

BEEN

FOUR

THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS INVOLVING SUMMER JOB STUDENTS HAS ON THE DECLINE SINCE THE MOUNTING OF A JOINT PUBLICITY PROGRAMME

LABOUR DEPARTMENT, MR YEARS AGO, THE CHIEF FACTORY INSPECTOR OF THE YIP YUK-LUN, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

PRIZE SPEAKING AT THE

PRESENTATION CEREMONY OF A BOOKMARK MR YIP SAID THERE

DESIGN COMPETITION ON WORK SAFETY FOR STUDENTS, WERE 18 SUCH ACCIDENTS LAST YEAR, COMPARED WITH 41 IN 1987.

WITH 13 STUDENT ALL THE ACCIDENTS LAST YEAR WERE MINOR ONES

BY MACHINERY WORKERS INJURED

AND THE REST BY HOT OR CORROSIVE SUBSTANCES, STEPPING ON OR STRIKING AGAINST OBJECTS, AND HAND TOOLS.

WHILE DESCRIBING THE FALLING TREND

ON URGED STUDENT WORKERS TO BE "ALWAYS INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS".

AS

MR "ENCOURAGING",

YIP THE ALERT AGAINST POSSIBLE

"TO BRING HOME THE MESSAGE OF WORK SAFETY, FACTORY INSPECTORS WILL VISIT SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTES AND DISTRIBUTE PUBLICITY LEAFLETS TO STUDENTS BETWEEN JULY," HE ADDED.

ΤΟ GIVE TALKS NOW AND EARLY

PART OF A

PUBLICITY

BY THE LABOUR AND OF ASSOCIATION

CAREERS

TODAY'S PRIZE PRESENTATION CEREMONY WAS PROGRAMME ON SUMMER JOB SAFETY ORGANISED JOINTLY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS AND THE HONG MASTERS AND GUIDANCE MASTERS.

KONG

THE WINNER AU SIU-MAN SCHOOL, THE FIRST RUNNER-UP KOK PREVOCATIONAL SCHOOL AND (19) OF KWUN TONG VOCATIONAL

RECEIVING PRIZES AT THE CEREMONY WERE (16) OF KWUN TONG GOVERNMENT SECONDARY WONG KWOK-LEI (19) OF CMA CHOI CHEUNG

CHAN WAI-HONG THE SECOND RUNNER-UP TRAINING CENTRE.

BOOKMARKS USING THE CHAMPION'S DESIGN DISTRIBUTION TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

HAVE BEEN PRINTED

FOR

ALSO OFFICIATING AT THE CEREMONY WERE OF EDUCATION (SERVICES), MRS GRACE YUNG; CHAIRMAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREERS MASTERS AND GUIDANCE MASTERS, MR CHAN JOE-CHAK; AND CHAIRMAN OF THE SAFETY PROMOTION COMMITTEE,

THE

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE HONG KONG

MR K.Y. TONGSON.

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