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These divisions, together with the Boilers and Pressure Vessels Division, will provide enforcement actions and field services to different work places, technical support and safety promotion activities, planning and training functions as well as legal advice in prosecution cases, civil claims and other legal matters.

The Operations Division and the Support Services Division are each headed by a Chief Factory Inspector.

The department's former Occupational Health Division has been split into Occupational Medicine, Occupational Hygiene (Operation) and Occupational Hygiene (Development) Divisions.

These three divisions are responsible for investigating and providing clinical services in respect of occupational diseases, assisting in employees' compensation cases, providing health educational services to employees, conducting research on potential health hazards in various work activities, defining hygiene standards, compiling and disseminating research findings and hygiene standards.

"Staff members of the new Occupational Safety and Health Branch are working closely together in implementing various recommendations contained in the Consultation Paper on the Review of Industrial Safety in Hong Kong which had been endorsed by the Executive Council late last year," Mr Lee said.

"We have made great progress, especially in the preparations of a number of proposed new occupational safety and health legislation which should improve Hong Kong's occupational safety and health situation if endorsed by the Legislative Council."

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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 85.4 per cent of capacity or 500.257 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 368.664 million cubic metres of water, representing 62.9 per cent of capacity.

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