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WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1994

UK PUBLIC SERVICE JOB POLICY

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SERVICE WITH THE SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION GOVERNMENT AFTER 1997 WILL NOT DEBAR ANY OFFICER OR HIS RELATIVES FROM UK CROWN SERVICE OR IN ITSELF HAVE ANY BEARING ON SECURITY CLEARANCE OR SUITABILITY FOR A PARTICULAR POST.

IN THE

BY

FOR THE

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON EMILY LAU LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), THE ACTING SECRETARY

WAS GIVEN WOODHOUSE, SAID THE ASSURANCE

KEN

SECURITY,

MR BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

ANY QUERIES RELATING TO UK PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT POLICY, INCLUDING SECURITY CLEARANCE, WERE MATTERS FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, MR WOODHOUSE ADDED.

INDUSTRIAL SAFETY LEGISLATION COMPREHENSIVE

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THE

ADMINISTRATION

SAFETY

THE EXISTING CONSIDERED THAT

THE SECRETARY COMPREHENSIVE, ALREADY LEGISLATION WAS EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR MICHAEL LEUNG, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

INDUSTRIAL

FOR

THE

WHERE AND,

ADMINISTRATION

NECESSARY,

LEUNG REGULARLY PROPOSED

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON SIMON IP, MR AS AN ON GOING PROGRAMME, SAID

LAW REVIEWED THE PROVISIONS OF THE AMENDMENTS OR INTRODUCED NEW LEGISLATION.

"IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, EIGHT PIECES OF SAFETY AND

WORK LEGISLATION WERE ENACTED, HE SAID.

HEALTH AT

LEUNG SAID AND HEALTH OF

NOTING THAT LEGISLATION ALONE WAS NOT ENOUGH, MR PUBLICITY, TRAINING AND RESEARCH IN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY MATTERS WERE EQUALLY IMPORTANT IN BRINGING ABOUT A HIGHER STANDARD WORK PLACE SAFETY.

"IN THIS CONNECTION, THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH COUNCIL HEALTH (OSHC) HAS A STATUTORY DUTY UNDER THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND

HEALTH AT COUNCIL ORDINANCE TO ENHANCE THE STANDARDS OF SAFETY AND WORK THROUGH PROMOTION, TRAINING AND RESEARCH."

ANY ADVICE

MR LEUNG SAID THE ADMINISTRATION HAD NOT RECEIVED THE OSHC THAT IT WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH EXISTING LEGISLATION SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK.

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