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To facilitate the processing of employees' compensation claims, these new forms require an employer who is the subsidiary of a group of companies to submit information about the holding company if its liabilities are covered by an insurance policy taken out by the holding company.
In addition, an employer who is a sub-contractor or a subsidiary will be required to provide the business registration certificate number of the principal contractor or the holding company.
Under the new form for reporting accidents, employers will be required to provide information on the location of the accident and activity carried out thereat; the nature of injury sustained by the employee and the part of his/her body injured; the cause of injury and agents involved in the accident.
"These additional details will help the Labour Department compile comprehensive statistics on work-related accidents," a Labour Department spokesman
said.
Since the majority of serious or fatal industrial accidents have taken place on construction sites, employers on these sites are required to furnish further information on the type of work performed by the employee and the machinery involved in the accident.
"Information collected from these forms will provide useful references for the Labour Department to target its enforcement actions and set priorities for improving industrial safety," the spokesman said.
The amendment regulation will be tabled at the Legislative Council on November 20, 1996. If approved, the new forms will be used from January 1, 1997.
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Support from the community is essential to combat AIDS
Prevention and education are the best ways to control AIDS, Mrs Lavender Patten said today (Friday).
Speaking at the opening ceremony of Hong Kong's first AIDS Conference, Mrs Patten said: "In spite of the medical advances and our rising awareness of the disease, AIDS is still an incurable condition, affecting young and productive people in our society."
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