Construction sites are Singapore’s deadliest workplaces: NGO

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The report was compiled by case worker and researcheer Stephanie Chok, who interviewed numerous construction workers in Singapore from China earlier this year.

In the report, they outline hard-to-meet productivity targets as being a problem, with some workers stating their employers would refuse payment if their targets were not met.

“Policy debates about worksite safety, at least in Singapore, have largely been lacking a critical voice: that of construction workers. Yet attempts to formulate a holistic workplace health and safety framework will fail if workers’ perspectives are overlooked in the formulation of long-term action plans,” the report reads.

Other factors include cost-cutting measures that result in severe time pressures, fatigue from long working hours and external conditions such as Singapore’s weather.

“These factors were enabled, as well as exacerbated, by their bosses’ and supervisors’ general disregard for workers’ safety and wellbeing, and zero tolerance for dissent. Ultimately, the priority, as one construction worker pointed out, is to maximize profits,” the report adds.

In an article by TODAY, the MOM said

http://www.humanresourcesonline.net/construction-sites-singapores-deadliest-workplaces-ngo/

 

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with some workers stating their employers would refuse payment if their targets were not met.



Other factors include cost-cutting measures that result in severe time pressures, fatigue from long working hours and external conditions such as Singapore’s weather.

beleive it, ive seen it happen at the site next to me