OP-ED: Workplace safety has high challenges
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SINGAPORE’S
The Straits Times
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The issue of safety at workplaces has surfaced again after a security guard died while trying to keep two people away from an area cordoned off for cleaning works on the exterior of a building. Experts whom this newspaper contacted in the aftermath of the accident could not identify the nature and use of the pit into which the guard fell because of insufficient information. But they said various measures were needed given the presence of such safety risks. The case drew attention yet again to the dangers of working at heights, whether as a construction worker or, in this case, as a security guard. It is essential that employers and employees recognise the hazards of such work and adopt a zero-risk approach to it.
Singapore’s recent ratification of the International Labour Organisation’s Occupational Safety and Health Convention obliges it to create, implement and review periodically, a national policy on workplace safety and health in consultation with employers and workers. It is clear that while the Government must continue to exercise its regulatory and punitive powers to ensure workplace safety, official surveillance cannot take the place of on-site vigilance exercised day to day by workers and employers. For workers, the stakes are clear: They and their families are the victims of accidents, particularly fatal ones. Workers owe it to themselves to observe safety protocols designed with their best interests in mind.
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THAILAND’S BANGKOK POST
EDITORIAL: Single-ticket foot-dragging
The delay in the launch of the long-overdue common ticket system that is designed to link all modes of public transport in Bangkok means city commuters will have to endure continued high transport costs and inconvenience.
Padet Praditphet, chief of the Common Ticketing Office, told the media that a full single-ticket system will not emerge until until 2020, blaming sluggish system development. There is some good news for those using the MRT Blue Line, the MRT Purple Line and the Airport Rail Link as they can gain access to the three systems with a single card, known as the “2.0 version”, in around September, according to Mr Padet.
It seems the 2020 time frame is based on sheer optimism as other operators appear half-hearted in seeing it materialise for fear of a dent to their income. This is why there has been little if any progress.
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