LD holds occupational health public talks
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     The Labour Department (LD) will hold a public talk entitled "Occupational Safety and Health for Confined Space Workers" on June 3. To enhance confined space workers' awareness of occupational safety and health, the talk will elaborate on occupational safety and health hazards and preventive measures.

     The talk will be held at 3pm in the Lecture Hall, Hong Kong Space Museum, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. The LD's Occupational Hygienist, Occupational Safety Officer and Occupational Health Nurse will give the talk.

     The LD will hold another talk entitled "Occupational Stress" on June 8. The talk will introduce the signs and symptoms of occupational stress, how occupational stress may affect employees' health and discuss coping strategies, in the form of case illustrations, to promote employees' awareness of the issue.

     The talk will be held at 3pm in Lecture Room 1, Tuen Mun Town Hall, 3 Tuen Hei Road, Tuen Mun, New Territories. The LD's Occupational Health Nurse will give the talk.

     The above talks will be conducted in Cantonese. Admission is free.

     For enquiry or registration, please call 2852 4040.

Ends/Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Issued at HKT 11:32

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