Are Safety Week Celebrations Enough? Addressing Real Safety Concerns at Work

Dear All, I would like to bring all of your kind attention to the following news:

[DMRC officials mark safety week - Times Of India](http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-04/jaipur/31121098_1_safety-week-dmrc-project-director-national-safety-day)

Seems like a good kind of initiative, right? It seems like this company is giving more importance to safety! Most of us will think this way unless we go through the news below:

[Laborer killed at Jaipur Metro construction site | TwoCircles.net](http://twocircles.net/2012mar04/labourer_killed_jaipur_metro_construction_site.htm l)

[Metro worker falls off beam, dies - The Times of India](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Metro-worker-falls-off-beam-dies/articleshow/12141102.cms)

[DMRC fails to intensify 'supervision' at metro sites - The Times of India](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/DMRC-fails-to-intensify-supervision-at-metro-sites/articleshow/12141284.cms)

We should be very serious towards the implementation of safety standards rather than just paying lip service or organizing events like safety week. What is the need for celebrating safety day if the outcome is a fatal accident at the end of the celebration?

I would also like to bring the following incident to the notice of our forum members, in which a woman dies during a mock drill in Bangalore as mentioned by Col. Jude Mayne in the following thread:

[Link to the incident](https://www.citehr.com/391264-safety-day.html)

[Mock drill lapses responsible for woman's death: Karnataka fire department chief - Yahoo!](http://in.news.yahoo.com/mock-drill-lapses-responsible-womans-death-karnataka-fire-102641265.html)

I request all the leaders reading this thread to seriously consider the working environment. Please strive to provide a safe and secure working environment for the workers.

Thank you.

First of all, thanks for sharing this information with us. A long time ago, I shared a similar fatality accident with the forum.

‘It Reminds Us That Even Safety Training Can Be Dangerous!’

https://www.citehr.com/335527-fatali...nstration.html

See the brief report/news of a woman falling to death during a fire drill for your view (though you shared it in your earlier post).

The Hindu: NATIONAL / TAMIL NADU: Woman falls to death during fire drill

Mr. Dipil, did you read what Anil Singhal said about that accident?

The Jaipur Metro project was launched on November 13, 2010, and since then, seven people have died in five accidents at the sites.

"We have provided all safety gadgets to the labourers. But we cannot say that the accidents are happening only in Jaipur," Anil Singhal, DMRC spokesman, said.

Do you hope he will take any corrective actions in the future? I hope ‘NO’.

This is the significant difference between our safety culture and others. Nothing can change until we correct ourselves.

Thanks for expressing your views. We can only do one thing: let's do our best in our own area of control to prevent such accidents. I think in the mentioned accident at DMRC, they were not even using proper access to reach the work location and had not yet started using the vertical fall arrestor or any other safety equipment.

Have a look at the video below:
https://www.citehr.com/372801-safety...ml#post1801395