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industry. From the beginning, the draft regulations are applicable to all factories and industrial undertakings except that at this stage, the 'Construction Industry' is
mentioned in the First Schedule. Since the Government has stated that there is no plan to place other industries under the jurisdiction of the draft regulations, they should reasonable be entitled "Factories and Industrial
Undertakings (Safety Officers and Safety Supervisors) (Construction Industry) Regulations" in order to reflect the fact that they are only applicable to the construction industry.
It is understood that the First Schedule to the draft regulations is so designed as to allow it to place other industries with risks under its control if the need
arises in future, but I very much doubt if this objective could be so simply and easily achieved. The main reason is that the working environment and nature of each industry are different, and so the level of risks and
other factors to be considered are not the same. For
instance, the definition of working sites, the method of calculating the number of employees and accordingly, the number of Safety Officers required will vary. I do not agree that the proposed regulations can be treated as a set of regulations for general use which can be extended
to any other industry. On the contrary, I consider that the more practical measure to adopt is to stipulate that the proposed regulations are applicable only to the construction industry. If the need to employ Safety Officers in other industries arises in future, then separate legislation can be enacted in accordance with the
rate of industrial accidents and the level of risks in
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