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Author: Xie Deqin
2020-05-12 12:00
Last update date: 2020-05-12 12:00A safe, healthy and pleasant working environment helps to improve the morale of employees, and has a positive effect on protecting employees' physical and mental health as well as the overall productivity of the organization. To encourage and commend organizations that promote outstanding occupational health, the Occupational Safety and Health Council, in conjunction with the Labour Department, the Department of Health, the Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund Committee, and the Occupational Deafness Compensation Authority, hold the "Occupational Health Award 2019-20" . What are the advantages of the grand prize winners who can stand out from more than 300 entries?
The Occupational Health Awards are divided into 3 categories, "Good Mood @ Healthy Workplace Award", "Pneumoconiosis Prevention Award", and "Aural Protection Award", which are to recognize the promotion of healthy diet, physical activity and mental health in the workplace Organizations that have implemented effective measures to prevent pneumoconiosis in the workplace, have active plans and have outstanding achievements; and organizations that have outstanding achievements in controlling noise in the workplace and protecting employees' hearing. In addition, in order to encourage commendation organizations to continue to use creativity and improve existing management measures, the three groups have set up "Creative Measures Awards" to recognize the organization's commitment to adopt effective and creative measures.
Winning list of the 15th Occupational Health Award: https://bit.ly/2wPQ6eW
Shortlisted institutions share experience: https://bit.ly/2yOa6yY
"Good Mood @ 健康 工作间 奖"
The Hong Kong Land (Exchange Square Property Management) Co., Ltd. won the "Good Mood @ HealthWorks Award" for outstanding institutions and creative measures. Their aim is to improve employees' job satisfaction and personal development opportunities, so that employees can stay healthy and happy. To this end, they will regularly hold different sports training, stretching workshops, etc. Provide a comfortable public space for employees to relax at any time. In addition to different drinks and snacks, there are game consoles, massage chairs, etc., and an online learning platform "HKL Disover" is provided to meet the needs of employees for personal training. Provide a healthy and challenging working environment in all aspects. Pfizer Research and Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., which also includes the Grand Institution Award and the Creative Measures Award, believes that home is the core of everyone and society, so they will start from the health of colleagues and their families to strengthen care measures, including flexible work arrangements, family Days, charging days, etc., and increase the paternity leave of male and female colleagues, and also hold different emotional management lectures, etc., hoping that colleagues are equally healthy.
Figure 1. Hongkong Land provides employees with a comfortable and healthy working environment-employee shared space.
Figure 2. Pfizer Research Pharmaceuticals of the United States promotes "home + Youqing" community mental health, reminding everyone to pay attention to the emotional health of themselves and their families.
"Pneumoconiosis Prevention Award"
This year's jury selected four projects with outstanding performance and considered them to effectively control the dust and protect the health of workers. The winners include the Baohua Security Joint Venture, which is responsible for the first phase of the Queen Mary Hospital Redevelopment Project, and the Tai Po District 1, Gymnasium, Community Hall and Football Stadium The project's Xingsheng Construction Co., Ltd. Baohua A & P jointly planned the project with "dust avoidance operation", "source dust reduction", "control" and "review and improvement", and set up a real-time air monitoring system in the site to measure the concentration of suspended particles in the air. Abnormal conditions, the project supervisor will immediately strengthen the dust control measures. In addition, dust-free hand tools and dust-free channels are also promoted to protect employees' health. As for Xingsheng Construction Co., Ltd., a team focused on the prevention of pneumoconiosis was established to formulate measures. Different methods such as automatic sprinkler system for driving lanes, double-layer dust shields and sprinklers are added to the pile driver to control the dust and dust distribution, and workers' physical health monitoring and inspections are regularly arranged to help employees. At the same time, regular training and workshops are held to establish a good and healthy work culture.
Figure 3. Baohua Security Group established a real-time air monitoring system, and the collected data will be transmitted to the control center in the office building at the site.
Figure 4. Xingsheng Construction has developed a cyclone dust separator for use with hand grinders, so that workers can work in an environment free of dust.
"Hearing Protection Award"
The Baohua Security Joint Venture also won the "Hearing Protection Award" Excellence Award, which is a big winner of this year's award. They plan their projects with the four major objectives of "avoidance of noise", "source noise reduction", "control" and "review and improvement", such as the use of innovative rock crushing technology during site formation and the use of "chemical silent crushing" "Agent" and "oil splitter" and other methods, greatly reduce noise and vibration.
Those who also received the "Hearing Protection Award" for outstanding performance also benefited from Niche-Xianfeng Engineering Associates and Niche Civil Engineering Co., Ltd. Responsible for the Kai Tak Development Project-Former North North Apron Phase 3B Infrastructure Project Niche-Xianfeng Engineering Joint Venture, Niche-Xianfeng Engineering Joint Venture, using vibration-free static pressure pile driver and static pressure pile method to replace the traditional The pile driver greatly reduces the noise from 85 decibels to 68 decibels, and uses hydraulic crushing clamps instead of traditional crushing excavators to reduce the noise from 100 decibels to 65 decibels. As for Niche Civil Engineering Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the cross-bay connection road T9 and related projects in Tseung Kwan O, more than 200 prefabricated concrete roads were used to lay down temporary roads instead of falling concrete, reducing the use of "shock pens" by nearly 90%. The noise problem of high-noise process, and the installation of noise barriers in the vicinity of the high-noise process, and the noise of each excavator is also equipped with a sound insulation device, the position of the pre-drilled I-pile, and additional Umbrella, in order to reduce noise in an all-round way.
Figure 5. Lightweight folding sound insulation device for niche civil engineering, effectively reducing the noise during work.
Figure 6. The "mobile sound-damping ramp" designed by Baohua Security Insurance Co., Ltd. can accept the stone head during disassembly and reduce noise.
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