Visit of safety officers from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

On Wednesday 11 October, two safety officers from Hong Kong visited the University. Dr May Chan and Andy Fong of the Health, Safety & Environment Office at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology were shown various areas of the University.

The tour included visits to the Robotics Laboratory in Engineering Science and the Laing O’Rourke building site of the new Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.

Accompanied to the various departments by Les Wright, Director of Occupational Health and Safety, along with other members of the Occupational Health & Safety Office, they were then joined by Professor Martin Maiden, Safety Executive Group co-chair, for lunch at Hertford College.

Commenting on the commonalities between the two establishments, Les Wright said: "There are many similarities between both the challenges, and the responses, at each of our respective universities. Our visitors were also due to visit the annual conference of the University Safety and Health Association (USHA), and through this and their visit to Cambridge earlier in the week they will have established a network of contacts who would be happy to continue building supporting relationships across the global health and safety community."