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safety campaign for this coming years should concentrate

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HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT:

Dr. Chiu I am afraid I must interrupt you,

it is now six o'clock and under standing order 82)

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CHIEF SECRETARY:

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Sir, with your consent, I move that standing order 82)

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business this afternoon to be concluded.

Question proposed, put and agreed to.

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The question is that standing order 82 be suspended, will those in favour please say "Aye".

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Those against please say "No".

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DR. CHIU: I shall continue my speech. In 1986, the Labour Department recorded 54,138 industrial

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accidents, resulting in 91 deaths 6,273 cases of major injuries representing 12.4% of the total injuries. Construction industry alone was responsible for sixty deaths and 20,970 injuries representing.

Heal 28 55.9 and 38.7% of the total figure in this respective NP7 op estegory. My honourable colleagues may be aware

that major industrial accidents is defined as those resulting in over 5 permanent disability or loss in over thirty working days. From this, we can see that the days lost from non-fatal injuries in 1986 could be

translated into a very handsome amount in terms of wages, let alone the lost production medical cost, industrial compensations and the cost of the long-term

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