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The cleaners are forced to wear uniforms + reflective clothing for outdoor work. Members: the scorching sun and the heat

2021-06-22T11:51:52.145Z


Cleaning work is the first barrier under the epidemic prevention, and I want to endure a worse working environment than ordinary people. Some members of the Tsuen Wan district received feedback from front-line cleaners that the contractor required to wear a uniform in addition to a reflective jacket


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Written by: District Licheng

2021-06-18 22:25

Last update date: 2021-06-18 22:25

Cleaning work is the first barrier under the epidemic prevention, and I want to endure a worse working environment than ordinary people.

Some members of the Tsuen Wan district received reports from frontline cleaners that the contractor required to wear a uniform and a reflective jacket to work in the hot and high temperature. The environment was worse than that of construction workers. Some members personally I used different clothes to experience sweeping the floor for three hours. I already felt itchy and uncomfortable. I was worried that the cleaning staff would be around with the garbage and get fever and illness at any time. The FEHD responded that starting this month, the frontline cleaners have been put on uniforms with new materials. The inspection response was further improved.

Tsuen Wan District Councillor Poon Langcong said that the weather in Hong Kong this year is extremely hot. Since April, the temperature has reached 30 degrees or more. It is indeed hard for employees to work outdoors, especially a group of frontline cleaners from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department. In the last blue or white uniform, a reflective jacket was added to prevent it from being hit by a vehicle while sweeping the road. He took what he saw and heard in Tsuen Wan last month as an example. A cleaner told him that the rubber reflective vest is extremely airtight. , It is very hard to work in the cold weather.

It is difficult to dissipate heat when working outdoors in two uniforms

According to his understanding, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has said that it has cooperated with local scientific research institutions to develop and design a uniform with wicking, reflective and ventilating functions. The department is required to report on the progress and when the relevant policies will be implemented in the 18 districts of Hong Kong.

Chen Jianqin, vice chairman of the Social Service and Community Development Committee, said that the uniforms worn by frontline cleaners that she knows are extremely airtight. If reflective clothing is added, it will be as if the bureau is going up and down. Some workers have to bring their own for fear of being exposed to the sun. Straw hats or other utensils that can block the sun, worry about wearing a few more pieces, the heat dissipation function will be worse, urge the FEHD to report the progress of the new uniforms.

Lin Xitian said that his constituency’s garbage cleaning capacity was insufficient. He had tried to clean up the garbage in the district with other district councilors for several hours, and then went down with shirts, T-shirts and T-shirts in person. Among them, he described the garbage cleaning of shirts as “dead hard”. Afterwards, there are sensitive reactions such as body marks. T-shirts are better than shirts. However, after severe sweating, the material will stick to the skin and feel extremely uncomfortable. Wearing a shirt is the coolest to work outdoors, at least without skin. The problem of itching, therefore, it is believed that clothing materials are the most important for cleaners working outdoors.

According to the FEHD, the new uniforms are equipped with ventilation, perspiration and reflection functions, reducing the number of pieces worn.

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The chairman of the Social Services and Community Development Committee, Huang Jiahua, said that construction workers are now working outdoors in two-in-one uniforms with reflective and breathable materials. They are concerned about why frontline cleaners have not been issued similar uniforms to work.

The representative of the FEHD responded that in 2019, the Polytechnic University was entrusted to develop new uniforms with all-in-one functions that are breathable, wicking and reflective. The finished products are now available and will be implemented in various districts starting from this month. Among them, the frontline cleaners in Tsuen Wan have already A new uniform was issued and the contractor instructed the workers to change to work in the new uniform. The initial reaction was positive and they believed that they were more breathable than wearing two clothes before.

Whenever the temperature exceeds 30 degrees, the cleaners work even more to sweat.

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The chairman, Huang Jiahua, later asked that he noticed that the picture of the new uniform issued by the department was a reverse collar button device. He was concerned that the buttons rubbed against the skin on a hot day and could easily develop skin diseases. He hoped that the department would consider changing to a round neck design. , The FEHD has promised to review the workers’ responses before making further improvements.

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