Reminded – Not all Accidents Happen at Site


While driving near my house, I saw an accident where concrete struts had fallen off the transporting truck. This brings home that accidents and incidents don’t only happen at site, but can happen during the commute to and from the site. Think of it, equipment is being transported by third parties, who claim that they meet your safety expectations, through civilian traffic which definitely doesn’t meet your safety expectations here in Malaysia.

If I was doing a risk assessment and having to fill this out on a risk matrix, the consequence of getting bad publicity (do you still want your logo on the equipment being transported?) is high, compared with an accident happening in the remote reaches of Kalimantan, or just having  you stuff sink to the bottom of the South China Sea.

Accident - Cement Struts on Road

Accident - Cement Struts on Road

Of course, imagine if the cement had dropped onto an occupied vehicle which happened to be next to the truck at the time of the incident.

One Response to Reminded – Not all Accidents Happen at Site

  1. Jabbathehutt says:

    From the CSI drama i am following (as part of my training to be a CSI tracking down runaway slaves), the picture you taken could be enhanced to get your car registration, and then searched at JPJ, and a potential stalker could be tracking you down. A net celebrity like you should be more careful.

    Back to the real topic, it is true the state of safety awareness is less than perfect. Publicity is low on the matrix for people on the ground. Only the big bosses are worried, not the daily operations guy.

    For instance, the head of the milk companies (from the Chinese melamine tainted milk co) care prosecuted, when the actual guys conducting quality checks, purchasing, are not prosecuted.

    If you start prosecuting the ones that are directly involve like the foreman, supervisor, maybe the attitude may change.

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