Comments on: Worker Injured After Falling From 2 Storey Level

By: Safety1st

Safety1st — Wed, 20 May 2015 16:52:03 +0000

Esan,

Your dad’s livelihood is at stake. Please make sure that the developers an the construction firm have their safety materials and training specifically for fall protection documented. If they don’t, hire a lawyer. That’s the only way safety will be enforced. You will have a very good case.

By: Rene Clarke

Rene Clarke — Wed, 20 May 2015 10:55:22 +0000

Unfortunately government doesn’t have Enforcement Officers “or do they?”.
You get the point.
Proactive intervention would help.
Shutting down construction activities until compliance is assured would no doubt wake up a few construction bosses.

By: Austin Smith

Austin Smith — Wed, 20 May 2015 04:11:41 +0000

Until the construction industry realizes that lax safety enforcement will affect their bottom line they will not comply to the most basic of regulations. The horror stories will continue. Our govt. safety regulations are a joke. Body harnesses and lanyard anchors must be enforced, ladders must be secured and regulated…I can go on and on but you get the picture.

By: Esan

Esan — Wed, 20 May 2015 00:59:33 +0000

That’s my dad! Thank you for the kind words. He has a shattered hip and a fractured knee, but he’s alert and conscious. Please keep him in your prayers!!

ONE LOVE

By: Tom Cooke

Tom Cooke — Wed, 20 May 2015 00:33:04 +0000

As a fellow construction worker…. I hope they inforce safty regulations as much as they did at the ACW… and you guys that were there …as much as a pain in ghe neck that it was will agree…SAFTY FIRST….
and I hope the guy is ok… my thoughts are with his family. .get well soon mate…

By: Mockingjay

Mockingjay — Tue, 19 May 2015 23:38:33 +0000

Hope he is insured.

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Tue, 19 May 2015 23:17:11 +0000

I agree Terry…”it’s wealth over health”

By: Emt

Emt — Tue, 19 May 2015 22:45:52 +0000

Hope he is ok…..this is the second fall from heights on a work site in two weeks. Falls from heights are the leading cause of death and injury in the construction industry in the world, we are so lucky here. Wonder when Govt safety dept will enforce the OSH Act of 1982..and Regulations of 2009. If they were we wouldn’t be discussing an injury today. Lets hope this will happen soon

By: High road

High road — Tue, 19 May 2015 21:51:16 +0000

Hope he is ok

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 19 May 2015 21:23:50 +0000

No comments on a fellow Bermudian but 10,000 on all the other news.

Bermuda Lizards are another world.