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Article 22 As soon as possible, provision shall be made requiring the gross weight of any package or object of 1,000 kilograms (1 metric ton) or more consigned within any territory for transport by sea or inland waterway to be plainly and durably marked on the package or object before it is loaded on any vessel. ArUcle 23 1. In order to secure the adoption of the most suitable safety means for preventing accidents and diseases, the following principles shall be applied (a,) The notification of all accidents to the competent authorities shall be required, and one of the essential duties of the Inspectors appointed by the competent authority shall be to investigate accidents, and more especially those of a serious or recurring character, with a view to ascertaining by what measures they can be prevented; (b) Inspectors shall inform and advise employers' and workers' organizations on the best standards of health find safety; (c) Inspectors shall encourage the collaboration of managing staff, and workers for the promotion of personal caution, safety methods, and the perfecting of safety equipment; (d) Inspectors shall endeavour to promote the improvement and perfecting of measures of health and safety, by the systematic study of technical methods for the internal equipment of undertakings, by special investigations into problems of health and safety, and by any other means. 2. In territories where it is considered preferable to have a special organization for accident insurance and prevention completely independent of the Inspectorate, the special officers of such an organization shall be guided by the foregoing principles. Section 9. —Information ArUcle 24 The competent authority shall assume responsibility for making widely known the nature and significance of the measures adopted in conformity with the foregoing Articles and the Articles of the Social Policy in Dependent Territories Recommendation, 1944, for the information of the workers and their families, and of the employers. Workers' organizations and employers' organizations, where such exist, shall be utilized as channels for this information. Wherever practicable, such information shall be made available in the local vernaculars. Section 10.—Definitions and Scope Article 25 For the purposes of the present Annex—(a) The term " agricultural undertaking " may be defined so as to include processes conducted on the undertaking for the preservation and despatch of the agricultural products of the undertaking, unless it is desired to classify these processes as parts of an industrial undertaking; (b) The term "commercial undertaking" includes—(i) Commercial establishments and offices, including establishments engaging wholly or mainly in the sale, purchase, distribution, insurance, negotiation, loan, or administration of goods or services of any kind;

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