What’s wrong with this picture? There is a large skip, full of concrete, swinging around on a crane. The men handling it have no hard hats, no safety boots, and at least one of them is standing in an unsafe place. There are several terrible accidents just waiting to happen. And nobody gives a shit.
The workers probably care, but they are from Cambodia and just grateful for the pitiful wages they receive. Every one else up the food chain, from their employer through to the not insubstantial company that is having the restaurant built. cares only about minimising cost and maximising profits; and if that means that a lowly worker is killed or crippled; well there are plenty more where he/she came from.
It gets worse:
Worse than doing nothing, you stick up a Safety First sign to pretend you care, and then do nothing. Obscene hypocrisy.
And no, it doesn’t have to be this way in Thailand. In my previous life I worked in the oil industry here and the work was conducted and managed by Thais to international safety standards. It just needs management attention and relatively little money; a small price to pay to keep people safer.
Comments 🔗
2009-08-01| todd sayscaring cost money
2009-08-01| genuinej saysWhy are all the flags lit up? Have you had a sudden outbreak of worldwide popularity?
2009-08-01| Spike saysEither that,or it’s broken