14:30 - 16:00, No.2 Conference Room
Workshop A
Asian Network: Scope and Action
Chairs: Sugio Furuya and Tushar Kant Joshi
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Kan Hong, Chan
Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims (ARIAV), Hong Kong
ABSTRACT
Hong Kong has the strict control on the use and handling asbestos from 1980's and the Air Pollution Control Ordinance bans the import and sale of the more dangerous types of asbestos, from May 1996. It also provides for the control on activities that might lead to asbestos dust emissions.
The compensation of the pneumoconiosis (silicosis and asbestos included) scheme started from 1981. If worker diagnosis silicosis or asbestos, they could get the compensation certainly. Because of strict control and the compensation scheme, it is no reason to have under -report asbestos case. The follow is the number of new case both of silicosis and asbestos
Number of Assessed new case from 1994 to 2001 in Hong Kong
(According from Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund Board)
(According from Pneumoconiosis Compensation Fund Board)
| Year | No. of Silicosis | No. of Asbestosis |
| 1994 | 314 | 7 |
| 1995 | 191 | 9 |
| 1996 | 110 | 9 |
| 1997 | 118 | 7 |
| 1998 | 104 | 5 |
| 1999 | 137 | 15 |
| 2000 | 105 | 11 |
| 2001 | 122 | 9 |