Dear All,
I am working as a safety officer on the housing construction site where unskilled labour is employed by sub contractors.Despite my best efforts I am unable to enforce use of PPEs or other safety guide lines to this labour.One of the reasons is the sub contractors of the labour who do not encourage them to use the PPEs as it hampers their speed of work(as per them)and the workers do not like to put on helmets or safety belts as it is not comfortable to them.Normally under such cases,we try to punish the concerned contractor by imposing fines etc. but here also the company is lukewarm as they do not want to take some step which ends up in losing the labour.The labour is illiterate and ignorant about the dangers envolved and sometimes careless also.They simply do not try to conceive the idea that it is all for their own welfare.They simply do not listen to the supervisory staff and obey safety rules till the time I am present and go back to unsafe working as soon as I leave.Please suggest if any body has faced such situation.What kind of legal implication are there if there is some accident under such cases and what kind of measures can be taken to avoid this.
I am working as a safety officer on the housing construction site where unskilled labour is employed by sub contractors.Despite my best efforts I am unable to enforce use of PPEs or other safety guide lines to this labour.One of the reasons is the sub contractors of the labour who do not encourage them to use the PPEs as it hampers their speed of work(as per them)and the workers do not like to put on helmets or safety belts as it is not comfortable to them.Normally under such cases,we try to punish the concerned contractor by imposing fines etc. but here also the company is lukewarm as they do not want to take some step which ends up in losing the labour.The labour is illiterate and ignorant about the dangers envolved and sometimes careless also.They simply do not try to conceive the idea that it is all for their own welfare.They simply do not listen to the supervisory staff and obey safety rules till the time I am present and go back to unsafe working as soon as I leave.Please suggest if any body has faced such situation.What kind of legal implication are there if there is some accident under such cases and what kind of measures can be taken to avoid this.