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1,439 sites checked for safety
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The Labour Department's special task force comprising 10 factory inspectors checked another 85 sites in the fifth week of the territory-wide special industrial safety operation. The total number of sites inspected in the past five weeks reached 1,439.
A total of 33 summonses will be issued to building contractors for breaching industrial safety laws as a result of the latest operation.
This brought the number of summonses to be issued under the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance to 452 up to yesterday (Thursday).
The breaches detected over the fifth week related mainly to failing to provide suitable working platforms or scaffolds; failing to provide proper fencing of dangerous places; failing to ensure the use of personal protective equipment by workers and failing to provide adequate safety measures in the use of lifting appliances. These were similar to the first four weeks' findings.
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High API recorded for industrial area
Air pollution index (API) for industrial area, including Kwun Tong, Kwai Tsing and Tsuen Wan districts, has reached 118 today (Friday). High indices were also recorded in the urban and new development areas, with API readings at 90 and 94 respectively.
"Today's poor air quality is due to ozone, which is not directly emitted from pollution sources. Ozone is caused by the reaction of air pollutants in the atmosphere and under sunlight.
"Nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons, which are mostly emitted by motor vehicles, are the main pollutants involved," acting Principal Environmental Protection Officer, Mr Pang Sik-wing, said.
"The very calm air circulatory conditions have given sufficient time for the chemicals in the atmosphere to form ozone.
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