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SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1994

PROSECUTION OF 38P(1) OF THE FINED THE

IN THE FOLLOW-UP

RESULTED INVESTIGATIONS MANFIELD BUILDING CONTRACTORS LIMITED UNDER SECTION CONSTRUCTION SITES (SAFETY) REGULATIONS. THE COMPANY WAS MAXIMUM OF $50,000 BY THE COURT ON JANUARY 11 THIS YEAR.

THE LAW STATES THAT THE

RESPONSIBLE FOR A CONTRACTOR

EDGE OR OTHER CONSTRUCTION

ENSURE THAT EVERY OPENING, SITE SHALL DANGEROUS PLACE THROUGH OR FROM WHICH ANY PERSON ON THE SITE IS LIABLE WITH EITHER TO FALL A DISTANCE OF MORE THAN TWO METRES IS PROVIDED SUITABLE STRONG GUARD-RAILS OR COVERINGS SO CONSTRUCTED AS TO THE FALL OF PERSONS, MATERIALS AND ARTICLES.

PREVENT

IS NO "IN FACT, PUTTING UP GUARD-RAILS TO DANGEROUS OPENINGS BIG DEAL. IT IS A FAIRLY SIMPLE JOB AND SHOULD BE ACHIEVABLE WITHIN A WORKERS FROM SHORT TIME IN MOST CASES, BUT IT WILL SERVE TO PREVENT FALLING FROM HEIGHT.

"CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENTS INVOLVING FALLING FROM HEIGHT RESULT IN DEATHS OR SERIOUS INJURIES," MR CHAN SAID.

HE URGED THOSE CONTRACTORS WHO HAD NOT BEEN SAFETY MEASURE TO DO IT AS SOON AS THEY CAN.

USUALLY

TAKING SUCH A

PUNISHMENT

AS THE RECENTLY BEEN AND $200,000

"OTHERWISE, THEY WILL FACE EVEN HARSHER MAXIMUM FINE UNDER THIS PARTICULAR SECTION OF LAW HAS

ΤΟ GO UP то LEGISLATIVE APPROVED BY THE IMPRISONMENT FOR 12 MONTHS, HE ADDED.

"

COUNCIL

0

OUTREACHING SERVICES FOR ELDERLY LIVING ALONE

SAID THIS WELFARE

STRACHAN, THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, MR IAN (SATURDAY) AFTERNOON THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS HAD JOINED HANDS TO REACH OUT TO ELDERLY PEOPLE WHO WERE

LIVING ALONE.

ELDERLY

MR COUNCIL, WELL-BEING OF

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF A SHAM SHUI PO OUTREACHING

ACTION OF SERVICE CENTRE

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD ADVICE STRACHAN SAID THE POLICY OBJECTIVE WAS TO PROMOTE THE THE ELDERLY THROUGH CARE BY THE COMMUNITY.

COMMUNITY FRAIL

SOME ELDERLY PEOPLE COULD NOT BENEFIT FROM EXISTING RESOURCES BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT AWARE OF THEM OR THEY WERE TOO AND HOME-BOUND TO GO TO THE CENTRE FOR SERVICES, HE SAID.

HE POINTED OUT THAT A DIFFERENT TYPE PROVIDED TO THESE ELDERLY PEOPLE.

OF

SERVICE

WOULD BE

**IN EARLY 1991, THE GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED TWO WELFARE то EXPERIMENT OUTREACHING SERVICE FOR THE ELDERLY AT RISK, TEAM IN WAN CHAI AND ANOTHER TEAM IN TSUEN WAN.

/"OUR EVALUATION

AGENCIES

WITH

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