SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1992
MACHINERY SAFETY CAMPAIGN A SUCCESS
AGAINST
FACTORY
FACTORY INSPECTORS TOOK OUT 398 SUMMONSES OWNERS DURING A TWO-MONTH CAMPAIGN ON MACHINERY SAFETY.
THEY ALSO VISITED 11,705 WORKPLACES TO EXPLAIN TO EMPLOYERS AND OF MACHINES WORKERS THE IMPORTANCE OF GUARDING THE DANGEROUS PARTS EFFECTIVELY.
"WE
TOOK
THE
OPPORTUNITY
ΤΟ
REMIND
PROPRIETORS
OF
THEIR AND
OPERATORS,
17
STATUTORY OBLIGATIONS TO HAVE MACHINE GUARDS PROPERLY MAINTAINED TO PROVIDE SUITABLE SUPERVISION AND TRAINING FOR MACHINE DEPUTY CHIEF FACTORY INSPECTOR, MR KAN HON-SANG, SAID.
"WORKERS WERE URGED TO CO-OPERATE WITH EMPLOYERS ALL NECESSARY SAFETY PRECAUTIONS," MR KAN ADDED.
NOTED
WHILE MACHINERY THAT
HAD
IN TAKING
THE
BEEN ON HE
ACCIDENTS
SUCH ACCIDENTS DECLINE IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, THERE WERE SOME 6,000 LAST YEAR, WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT ONE-EIGHTH OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS.
"DANGEROUS PARTS OF MACHINERY, IF NOT PROPERLY GUARDED, CAUSE SERIOUS ACCIDENTS RESULTING IN LOSS OF LIMBS OR MR KAN SAID.
OFTEN EVEN DEATHS,"
"SOME
MACHINES
ARE
PARTICULARLY
DANGEROUS,
SUCH
AS
POWER
PRESSES, GRANULATORS, AND MACHINES USED IN WOODWORK PAPER AND CATERING INDUSTRIES AS WELL AS PRINTING AND PLASTICS FACTORIES," HE ADDED.
MR KAN
THAT CAUTIONED
ALTHOUGH
THE
SAFE OPERATION OF MACHINES
MACHINERY
SAFETY
UP
THEIR
AND
WOULD
TAKE
CAMPAIGN ENDED IN AUGUST, FACTORY INSPECTORS WERE KEEPING
THE
VIGILANCE ON OUT PROSECUTION AGAINST OFFENDING OWNERS.
SAI KUNG ARTS FESTIVAL BEGINS
* * * * *
CULTURAL AND ARTS PROGRAMMES ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE
OF A BALANCED
COMMUNITY,
THE REGIONAL
SECRETARY
TERRITORIES, MR ALBERT LAM, SAID TODAY (SUNDAY),
DEVELOPMENT FOR THE
NEW
KUNG ARTS
THE RESIDENTS'
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE THIRD SAI FESTIVAL, MR LAM ADDED THAT IT WOULD FURTHER ENHANCE QUALITY OF LIFE.
WILL
LAST UNTIL
NOVEMBER
8.
PROGRAMMES
WILL SCHOOLS AND
THE FESTIVAL INCLUDE PERFORMANCES BY THE DISTRICT'S CHILDREN CHOIR, LOCAL ORGANISATIONS, TRADITIONAL CHINESE DANCES, PUPPET AND SILHOUETTE SHOWS BY TWO VISITING TROUPES FROM CHINA'S HUNAN PROVINCE.
ANOTHER SPECIAL PROGRAMME WILL BE THE CANTONESE OPERA PERFORMED BY PROMINENT TV STARS, MISS LISA WONG MING-CHUEN AND MR LAW KA-YING.
/THIS YEAR'S
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