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Railway
Construction
Though the compliance to environmental legislation is a responsibility for
MTR's contractors, MTR has put in place advanced monitoring and site audit
arrangements to encourage our contractors to be fully compliant with environmental
legislation.
There are weekly environmental site audits and monitoring of noise and dust
levels supplemented with occasional daily site visits. Letters and advice
are issued to contractors where there is a danger of a contractor breaching
any environmental legislation. Partnering with contractors is also extensively
used. This compliments the training given to contractors and MTR site staff
on safety and environmental issues.
In addition, MTR has maintained Milestone Payments for compliance to a Safety,
Quality and Environmental site audits on the Penny's Bay Line and the Tung
Chung to Ngong Ping Cable Car. Payment is not issued if the contractor fails
the site audit. There were no incidents of non-payment in 2003. This practice
is not standard in Hong Kong, but MTR and our contractors recognize the
benefits of this system. In addition, MTR remains as the only client in
Hong Kong to promote contractor achievement awards in safety, quality and
environment to deserving contractors. MTR has developed a comprehensive
range of tried and tested measures that are incorporated into its construction
contracts to ensure that people living and working close to construction
works do not experience unacceptable levels of noise. MTR monitors the noise
from construction works undertaken by contractors in much the same way as
it monitors its own operating railway. During 2003, all monitoring results
were within legal limits.
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