IAM continues to advance summer safety work and strengthen supervision of municipal facilities under construction, with fire evacuation drills to be carried out in multiple external services centres from coming Wednesday

IAM continues to advance summer safety work, distributing and explaining a series of safety and hygiene guidelines to contractors and construction workers

To implement the important instructions from President Xi Jinping on flood prevention and disaster relief, resolute prevention of serious incidents, and effective safeguarding of the safety of people’s lives and property, and to follow the Chief Executive’s directives from the summer safety meeting on further strengthening Macao’s overall safety, ensuring general stability and harmony, and safeguarding the lives and property of the public, the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) continues to strengthen the work arrangements for summer safety and disaster prevention. It has earlier stepped up the inspections of the municipal facilities under construction, distributing and explaining a series of safety and hygiene guidelines to contractors and construction workers, who were also reminded to pay attention to occupational safety and health management at the construction sites and the impacts of inclement weather on workers and construction safety during summer time, and to enhance their awareness of risk management for electricity use, fire prevention, flood prevention, mosquito and rodent prevention and control, so as to eliminate safety hazards at the source.
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