Activities by Civil Service Bureau

• The seminar aims at introducing the knowledge on first aid care in various emergency situations like wound bleeding, fracture, sprain, shock etc. Demonstration of bandaging will also be made.

21 May 2025

Understanding and Responding to Verbal Violence (Part II: for supervisory staff)

Staff at supervisory level

• The seminar aims enhancing the awareness of supervisory staff on verbal violence at work and enhancing their ability for handling the verbal violence incidents, especially those escalated by their sub-ordinates.  Speaker will introduce the aggressive situations/behavious and the role of supervisors in the verbal violence incidents and the coping strategies to handle them. 

• Also, the speaker will speak on the skills to analyse the incidents and develop improvement/preventive measures, and to support their sub-ordinates suffered from stress/emotional disturbances arising out of verbal violence at work.

22 May 2025

Priority will be given to colleagues who are required to perform outdoor work and their supervisors.

• Speakers from the Labour Department and the Hong Kong Observatory will elaborate on the occupational safety of working under inclement and hot weather and the points to note in drawing up codes of practice.

• They will also introduce the “Guidance Notes on Prevention of Heat Stroke at Work” and the appropriate measures to be adopted under inclement and hot weather.

27 May 2025

Seminar on "Prevention of Heat Stroke at Work in a Hot Environment"

Colleagues who are interested in the topic

• To strengthen the protection of employees’ occupational health, the Labour Department published “Guidance Notes on Prevention of Heat Stroke at Work” (GN) in 2023 so that employers can take appropriate measures with reference to the specified criteria to reduce the risks of employees suffering from heat stroke at work.

• This seminar aims at enhancing participants’ understanding of the content and main requirements of the GN.