LCQ7: Site safety performance of contractors and scoring mechanism

Following is a question by the Hon Julia Lau and a written reply by the Secretary for Development, Ms Bernadette Linn, in the Legislative Council today (October 21): Question: Works departments of the Government prepare quarterly performance reports to assess the performance of contractors across various public works contracts, with site safety being a key attribute. The industry has reflected that the existing assessment system often fails to accurately reflect the actual safety levels and risk profiles of individual sites (such as the severity of work injuries involved), and is also unfair to public works contractors (contractors) who have accumulated demerit points due to individual incidents involving minor injuries, which may even lead to unreasonable disqualification from tendering or prohibition from participating in tenders. In this connection, will the Government inform this Council: (1) how the works departments, the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Labour Department currently handle work injury cases of varying degrees of severity when assessing the site safety performance of contractors and calculating the accident rates of public works; under the existing tender eva

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