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framework, the Construction Sites (Safety) Regulations

were amended in 1983 to make more specific provision

for persons working at height. These amendments have

been vigorously enforced. Of 492 prosecutions in 1984

for breaches of Construction Sites regulations, 282

cases were in this particular area.

Meanwhile, the Labour Department's Industrial

Safety Training Centre conducts safety courses

specifically tailored to the needs of the construction

industry and also assist other organisations in

running similar courses. The Department itself ran 40

courses last year, attended by some 850 people.

Publicity is the third major weapon. In

recent years, the Labour Department

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in conjunction

with the Labour Advisory Board's Committee on

Industrial Safety and Accident Prevention and other

organisations

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has conducted an intensive publicity

campaign aimed at promoting good safety practices and

instilling a sense of safety-consciousness at work.

Safety in the construction industry has featured

prominently in this effort.

Action of the kind I have described will

continue to be taken and I trust that this will

contribute to a further decline in fatalities caused

by this type of accident.