On EU KW's initiatives for safety at work, EU KW Superintendent Elsie Wong Mui-kit said: "In the past, staff members were not quite aware of the important and subtle relationship between safety at work and health, so they exposed themselves to injuries or suffered from illnesses caused by long-term strain. As a result, deployment of human resources might have been affected.

"Therefore, it is important to analyse the causes of injuries on duty and draw up precautionary guidelines accordingly."

SP Elsie Wong pointed out that EU KW's "Occupational Health and Safety Team" has identified for its "Local Task List" three high risk tasks for EU KW officers - effecting the arrest of suspects; handling persons under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and responding to an emergency call.

In order to make staff more aware of occupational health and safety, SP Wong set up a working group to design posters, with representatives from each Platoon. After conducting data analysis and case studies, as well as considering measures taken by other police forces, the working group finally came up with three eye-catching posters.

The posters are now on display outside the armoury, not only forming a focal point in the station, but also making a big contribution to raising awareness of occupational health and safety.

The "Safety Performance" Index, explained SP Wong, had been drawn up to help officers understand better the benefit of management of "Injury on Duty". The database covers all kinds of occupational safety matters and statistics on injured officers and civilian staff. It also categorises the figures for injuries and absence from duty due to various causes such as injuries resulting from execution of duty, road accident, and receiving training, etc.

The database will be updated every month so that supervisory officers would understand better the causes of occupational safety issues, days of absence from duty and the proportion of more serious injuries. The database also enables the management to review the training needs of staff and to investigate and resolve problems.

SP Wong further pointed out that the Work Improvement Group was set up in January this year, with JPOs as members to encourage frontline staff to discuss ways to minimise injuries on duty.

Posters displayed outside the armoury make officers more aware of occupational health and safety