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Lighthouse Club Hong Kong Safety Professionals Awards & Contractor’s Charity Dinner
The men and women on the frontlines of worksite safety have enjoyed a richly deserved moment in the spotlight at this year’s Lighthouse Club Hong Kong Safety Professionals Awards and Contractor’s Charity Dinner. With the support of the Hong Kong Construction Industry Council, the event has become the pinnacle of the calendar for the contractors, safety officers and foremen that have contributed the most to saving lives and preventing injuries across the construction industry.
and Health Association, and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, Hong Kong Branch.
While this annual event is organised by the Lighthouse Club, it is supported by the construction council, the Society of Registered Safety Officers, Hong Kong Occupational Safety
Illustrating the safety first thinking on the site, the jointventure partners won the HK$1.04 billion contract in May
Winners for a worthwhile cause
The inaugural winners of the Lighthouse Club-Hilti Safe Project Team Awards were the Mass Transit Railway Corp, Bachy-Soletanche-Laing O’Rourke Joint Venture for their work on contract 811A of the Express Rail Link. One of 11 The awards recognise outstanding performance in health segments on the 200 km/h rail link to the mainland’s Beijing and safety, as judged by a panel of 30 construction industry Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, the joint venture partners luminaries. The awards go beyond the work that the are responsible for a 300-metre-long, cut-and-cover tunnel Lighthouse Club has been doing for more than 50 years in to the immediate north of the railway’s West Kowloon supporting the victims of accidents on construction sites and Terminus. With the underground sections of railway lines of ill health. The awards are also central to the construction to Tuen Mun, the airport and Tung Chung adjacent to or council’s work to improve safety standards across the industry. cutting through the site, the deep excavation has not been without its challenges. The proof of the awards’ importance is in their growing popularity. There were more than 500 entries this year – Announcing the winners at the contractor’s evening, Mark the most in the award’s history. About 550 people attended the Divers, chairman of the Lighthouse Club Hong Kong Safety dinner on September 13, who in turn raised about HK$60,000 Committee, and Andy Lo, vice-president of the Institution for safety-linked charities. Both are new records. The awards’ of Occupational Safety and Health, said the team award expansion into a fourth category is more evidence of their represented the highest standards in safety for an entire popularity. The new category this year was project teams, project, from client to workers. The joint-venture team complementing the traditional awards to recognise foremen, working on contract 811A has adopted what it calls subcontractors and safety professionals. a “mission zero” target throughout across the site.