Safety regulations updated

Safety has been one of Dunwell’s major focus areas through out the years; we regularly provide safety training to our employees and sub-contractors to develop and increase their awareness of occupational health and safety. At the same time, we also subsequently conduct review and modification to our existing policies and work-related procedures for safety enhancement.

Each interceptor usually contains more than one manhole

Since 2011, we have reviewed and modified our existing working procedure in the procedures of cleaning petrol interceptor for advancement and a step forwards to facilitate a better safety standard and to better protect our workmen from any forms of injury.

Working steps and procedures of cleaning a petrol interceptor include the opening of the manhole (interceptor cover). Usually, each petrol interceptor contains more than one manhole. In the past, it has been generally accepted that the workmen can first lift up all three manholes at the same time before they start to insert the hoses into the interceptor for cleaning. Due to the fact that no past incidence and/ or injury has been taken place, this routine step was generally adopted for time saving and as a more convenient task.

Before the amendment of the safety regulation,
all manholes were opened at once

However, the opening of more than one manhole at the same time will pose the risk of dropping of equipment as well as stumbling of workmen into the hole. Therefore, we have modified our work procedures to strictly prohibit the opening of more than one manhole prior to the cleaning task. In such, workmen have to follow the orders of opening the first manhole and closing it after completing the cleaning work, then to open the second manhole and repeat the job again.

Through this upgrade of the safety regulation, the injury rate and near-miss incidents that were to happen in the past can be effectively reduced. The safety awareness of the workmen can also be raised.

安全條例升級

 

每個隔油池都有多於一個渠蓋

多年來，安全一直是正昌集團其中一個非常重視的範圍，並定期為培養員工及外判承包商提供訓練，致力培養及提升他們對職業安全及健康的意識。同時，我們也定期進行審查和修改現有的政策和與工作有關的程序，增強工作的安全性。

 

自2011年，我們審閱和修改我們清洗隔油池的工作程序，採用更高的安全標準，更全面地保護工作人員免受任何形式的傷害。

清洗隔油池的工作步驟首先包括打開沙井的渠蓋，一般而言，每個隔油池都擁有多於一個渠蓋。過去，工作人員大多先一次打開所有渠蓋，然後才開始插入水喉進行清潔。由於過去並沒有損傷事故，所以該步驟一般被普遍接受，而工作人員都為節省時間及更方便快捷完成工作去採用此捷徑。



在安全條例修改之前，工人大多一次過打開所有渠蓋

然而，在同一時間打開一個以上沙井的渠蓋卻會有機會令工具什至工作人員自身掉進隔油池。因此，我們修改了清洗隔油池的工作程序，嚴格禁止同時打開一個以上的渠蓋。亦即是說，工人必須遵循步驟，先打開第一個渠蓋，完成清潔工作後，把它關上後才可打開第二個渠蓋及重複的之前的工序。通過這次安全監管的升級，損傷率和未遂事故將可被有效地減低，而工作人員的安全意識也可被進一步提升。