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the

The Local Employment Service of the Labour Department offers a free placement service to job seekers. For those who are physically or mentally handicapped,

Selective Placement Division of the Labour Workers who are found to be Department will help them seek suitable jobs. medically unfit for work involving exposure to air pollution can seek assistance from these agencies for alternative employment.

to

The Public Assistance Scheme, which is means-tested, is designed bring the income of needy individuals or families to a prescribed level where essential needs such as food, clothing and accommodation can be met. Considerable improvements to the scheme have been made since 1 July 1987, including the payment of additional allowances to meet recognised special needs in the areas of transport, education, personal health,

non-means-tested

or personal disability

there

a

personal care

so that essential expenses can be defrayed without causing undue hardship to the recipients. Apart from

Assistance from

Scheme,

is also the Public payments

under Disability Allowance

the Special Needs Allowance Scheme payable monthly to a severely disabled applicant who is medically certified to be in position broadly equivalent to a person with 100 percent loss of

to the criteria set in the earning capacity according

It is considered that the Employees' Compensation Ordinance, Chapter 282. schemes are effective enough to maintain the livelihood of those workers who are found to be medically unfit for the original work by means of income supplement up to a prescribed level.

Three copies of the Employees' Compensation Ordinance have been attached to the current report on Convention No. 17.

Article 12

The number of

equipment

chanyes.

such

is

processes, substances, machinery and

is

and numerous

with technological increasing rapidly Some which were thought to be harmless may later be found to contaminate the working environment and thus expose workers to health hazards. It is therefore not possible to draw up a comprehensive list. The practice in Hong Kong is therefore to specify the substances and

and when they are found to processes

cause health hazards in the

environment working

and

of control. prescribe appropriate types examples of these types of control are as follows:

as

Some

(a) The import, possession and use of radioactive substances are controlled by the Radiation Board through a licensing system. Section 7 of the Radiation Ordinance, Chapter 303, prohibits any person to manufacture, produce, sell, deal in or with, possess or use any radioactive substance except under

in and

accordance with a licence issued under the

ordinance.

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