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Appendix IV

(Chapter 2: Employment)

Factory registrations and inspections, 1967

Applications received for registration

...

Registration certificates issued

...

2,041 1,641

Applications refused (premises unsuitable)

4

...

Applications withdrawn

203

...

Factories closed and Registration Certificates surrendered

624

Places of employment registered at December 31

7,309

*Factories 'recorded' at December 31

3,923

Routine visits by inspectorate for enforcement of safety, health and

welfare provisions

..

44,833

Inspections in connection with industrial or occupational accidents

and workmen's compensation

1,477

Visits for wage enquiries

498

Visits about employment of women and young persons

15,571

Night visits to enforce regulations on employing women and young

persons at prohibited hours

9,365

Visits in connection with enforcement of the Industrial Employment

(Holidays with Pay and Sickness Allowance) Ordinance

2,595

Undertakings which do not require to be registered as factories but are inspected by the Labour Department staff.

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Appendix V

(Chapter 2: Employment)

Industrial and occupational accidents, 1967

Persons involved

Deaths

Persons injured in registrable workplaces

Deaths in registrable workplaces

*Total accidents reported and investigated

(1966 total 8,693)

Accident rate per 1,000 industrial workers

(1966 rate 11.47)

Fatality rate per 1,000 industrial workers

(1966 rate 0.088)

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8,633

146

4,898

24

8,633

11.19

0.055

* An accident involving two or more persons is recorded as a separate accident for each

person involved.