China's prestigious
Tsinghua
University and world-known Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
announced in Beijing Sunday to launch a joint research program on
occupational safety in China.
The program will be dedicated to researching the human aspects of
occupational safety in China and reducing occupational injuries.
The result of the research will be published worldwide.
World-renowned experts on occupational safety will be involved in
the program, which both Tsinghua and Liberty Mutual believe will
contribute significantly to preventing financial and social burdens
associated with occupational injuries in China.
"Occupational safety has become an issue which arouses great public
concern in China. Liberty Mutual hopes to bring its 90 years of
experience to China to accelerate the development of workplace
safety research and consulting in China," said Tom Leaman,
vice-president and director of the Liberty Mutual Research Center
for Safety and Health.
The joint program will place Tsinghua University at the leading
edge of global occupational safety development, said Guo Zengyuan,
director of the Mechanical Engineering School of the
university.
John Kimber, managing director of China Development at Liberty
Mutual, said China will become the center of world economic growth,
and carrying out a safety research in China will also benefit many
other countries and regions.
Liberty Mutual Group is a diversified international group of
insurance companies, which now becomes the largest workers
compensation insurer in the world.
Since opening the first representative office in Chongqing,
southwest China, in 1998, Liberty Mutual has carried out a number
of cooperative activities in the area of occupational safety and
health with other cities of the country. It has applied for an
insurance license in China.
(Xinhua News
Agency October 13, 2002)