A NEW registration system should be introduced to tackle the high accident rate in the construction industry, Hongkong Construction Association president Mr Peter Lam Chun-kwong said yesterday.
Mr Lam said such a system would help address problems with the current training methods, which were often disorganised and not taken seriously.
The comments follow the death of two crane operators at the Tsing Ma Bridge site this month.
Mr Lam said workers in the local construction industry, which has been notorious for its high accident rate, lacked the safety consciousness which had been successfully instilled in their counterparts in other developed countries.
The Government or statutory bodies like the Vocational Training Council should administer a registration system, he said.
Workers who completed a training course would have to be registered and those who failed to complete the course would not be allowed to work at construction sites.