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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1991

"THE HELPER SHOULD NOT CARRY OUT NON-HOUSEHOLD CHORES.

"THOSE WHO BREACH THEIR CONDITION OF STAY ARE LIABLE TO A OF $5,000 AND TWO YEARS' IMPRISONMENT," HE SAID.

FINE

WHO HAVE AIDED AND ABETTED THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THAT PEOPLE

LIABLE то FOREIGN DOMESTIC HELPERS TO COMMIT THESE OFFENCES ARE ALSO PROSECUTION AND PENALTY.

0

WORK ACCIDENTS ON THE DECLINE

*

THE INCIDENCE OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS SHOWED SIGNS OF DECLINE IN THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THIS YEAR.

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ACCORDING TO STATISTICS RELEASED BY THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT TODAY (FRIDAY), 18,881 INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS WITH

FATALITIES WERE RECORDED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR, REPRESENTING A DROP OF 2.3 PER CENT FROM THE 19,318 ACCIDENTS WITH

FATALITIES IN THE SAME

PERIOD IN 1990.

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"THE DOWNWARD TREND OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS IS INDEED ENCOURAGING," SAID THE DEPARTMENT'S CHIEF FACTORY INSPECTOR, MR YIP YUK-LUN, NOTING THAT THE GREATEST DECREASE WAS IN THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY, DOWN BY 8.3 PER CENT TO 7,531 ACCIDENTS.

"THE NUMBERS OF ACCIDENTS

IN THE ELECTRONICS, TEXTILE AND

FROM

PLASTICS INDUSTRIES HAVE ALL GONE DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY FROM 409 TO FROM 1,619 TO 1,116 AND

484 то 359 RESPECTIVELY PERIOD, MR YIP SAID.

259,

DURING

THE

WARNING AGAINST

COMPLACENCE, MR YIP SAID THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY REMAINED THE "MOST DANGEROUS" TRADE IN HONG KONO, REGISTERING A 1.7 PER CENT INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS.

"WITH. 9, 385 ACCIDENTS AND 25 FATALITIES, THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY ALONE ACCOUNTED

ABOUT HALF OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS IN ALL INDUSTRIES, HE SAID.

I

FOR

"

то

REPAIRING

"THERE WERE ALSO MORE ACCIDENTS IN THE MINING AND QUARRYING, UTILITIES TRANSPORT AND SERVICING INDUSTRIES, UP BY 4.3 PER CENT 1,965 ACCIDENTS, WHILE THE FIGURE FOR THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY ROSE FROM 369 TO 404 OVER THE PERIOD, HE ADDED.

AND

THE MAJOR CAUSES OF THE INDUSTRIAL, ACCIDENTS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN PREVIOUS YEARS.

WERE GENERALLY

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