Dubai Construction Safety
Mar 11th 2009, 4:58 am
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Dubai Construction Safety
I am sorry but I simply do not believe the statistics quoted here. Whenever I visit construction sites, yes there are plenty of warning notices on display and protective helmets worn but the practices of the mainly unsupervised workers are often terrifying. I have already mention a recent fatal plunge into a silo which has not been reported anywhere. Maybe I am just being unfair?
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/edit.../10293544.html
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/edit.../10293544.html
Mar 11th 2009, 5:35 am
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Re: Dubai Construction Safety
come on we know that the statistics in the papers are never right, shame they still feel the need to con the outside world.
Mar 11th 2009, 5:48 am
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Re: Dubai Construction Safety
I am sorry but I simply do not believe the statistics quoted here. Whenever I visit construction sites, yes there are plenty of warning notices on display and protective helmets worn but the practices of the mainly unsupervised workers are often terrifying. I have already mention a recent fatal plunge into a silo which has not been reported anywhere. Maybe I am just being unfair?
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/edit.../10293544.html
http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/edit.../10293544.html
Every site noticeboard I've seen shows between 75 and 100 days lost to injury, generally relating to a tower that hasn't got beyond 5 floors yet.
The HSE figures for 2007-2008 show an average of 3.4 per 100,000 workers killed at work (construction only - national average 0.8/100,000) with a total of 72 fatal injuries.
HSE stats for construction in the UK
As for "proper training"... I would imagine it goes something like this "This is a "building site" - you will be working here. This is your "safety hat" - wear it. Here is a "hammer"..."
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Mar 11th 2009, 6:26 am
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Re: Dubai Construction Safety
the sycophantic style of the article is a dead giveaway.
Every site noticeboard I've seen shows between 75 and 100 days lost to injury, generally relating to a tower that hasn't got beyond 5 floors yet.
The HSE figures for 2007-2008 show an average of 3.4 per 100,000 workers killed at work (construction only - national average 0.8/100,000) with a total of 72 fatal injuries.
HSE stats for construction in the UK
As for "proper training"... I would imagine it goes something like this "This is a "building site" - you will be working here. This is your "safety hat" - wear it. Here is a "hammer"..."
Every site noticeboard I've seen shows between 75 and 100 days lost to injury, generally relating to a tower that hasn't got beyond 5 floors yet.
The HSE figures for 2007-2008 show an average of 3.4 per 100,000 workers killed at work (construction only - national average 0.8/100,000) with a total of 72 fatal injuries.
HSE stats for construction in the UK
As for "proper training"... I would imagine it goes something like this "This is a "building site" - you will be working here. This is your "safety hat" - wear it. Here is a "hammer"..."
Mar 11th 2009, 8:13 am
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Re: Dubai Construction Safety
but in the national today they are saying its the year ago today that the big accident happened in ghantoot, and how many people did they say was killed back then, dont remember any, but today its says 4 and 350 cars affected etc.
Mar 11th 2009, 8:55 am
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they did state in the paper that there was fatalities
Mar 11th 2009, 8:59 am
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If you remember the absolute carnage depicted on the TV and in newspaper pictures soon after it happened, it makes only 4 dead seem unlikely.
Mar 11th 2009, 9:08 am
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Mar 11th 2009, 9:19 am
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Re: Dubai Construction Safety
200 odd car pile up in fog outside Ghantoot.
I was driving the other way (AD bound ) that morning. You couldnt see 10 metres in front, still the arseholes in Landcruisers and safari's were flying by at 140 plus.
On my journey i witnessed 2 landcruisers smash into the central reservaton
idiots
I was driving the other way (AD bound ) that morning. You couldnt see 10 metres in front, still the arseholes in Landcruisers and safari's were flying by at 140 plus.
On my journey i witnessed 2 landcruisers smash into the central reservaton
idiots
Mar 11th 2009, 9:29 am
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Re: Dubai Construction Safety
200 odd car pile up in fog outside Ghantoot.
I was driving the other way (AD bound ) that morning. You couldnt see 10 metres in front, still the arseholes in Landcruisers and safari's were flying by at 140 plus.
On my journey i witnessed 2 landcruisers smash into the central reservaton
idiots
I was driving the other way (AD bound ) that morning. You couldnt see 10 metres in front, still the arseholes in Landcruisers and safari's were flying by at 140 plus.
On my journey i witnessed 2 landcruisers smash into the central reservaton
idiots
But that was a traffic accident and not a construction accident, no? I had visions of a building collapse or something.
Mar 11th 2009, 12:36 pm
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yep traffic accident but was stating it because the correct numbers are never quoted 
