TNAG-1520-FCO40-2081-Employment-in-Hong-Kong-1986 — Page 12

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DRAFT SPEECH BY HON K C CHAN, OBE, JP

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

29.10.86

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Motion on Factories & Industrial Undertakings.. (Safety Officers & Safety Supervisors) Regulations 1986

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-Sir,

I rise to support, in principle, the Safety Officers and Safety Supervisors Regulations 1986 and take this opportunity to thank my colleagues of the LegCo Ad Hoc Group who have scrutinized these regulations during my absence from Hong Kong on LRT business. Their areas of concern will be reflected in their speeches.

The

Personally, I am very pleased to see the fruition of the Safety Officers and Safety Supervisors scheme after years of It was essential to train sufficient number of preparation. qualified safety officers and safety supervisors before implementation of the scheme and I understand that by now we have some 500 safety officers and over 7,000 safety supervisors. latter may be performing dual duties as foremen and as safety supervisors which take care of the large number of small establishments with 20 workers. The choice of the industry with the highest rate of industrial accidents is logical and will encourage other industries to pay more attention to industrial safety and hopefully can cut down on the number of industrial accidents.

Some years ago, when I first joined the Industrial Safety Committee of the Labour Advisory Board, we were at the exciting moment of mapping out strategies for making employers and employees

Some of the ideas were: more aware of industrial safety.

(a) involve senior management and supervisory staff

through industrial safety seminars which are continuing successfully;

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