Various labour and rights organisations on Thursday observed the World Day for Safety and Health at Work-2011 with a call for ensuring safety at workplaces.
This year the day focused on the implementation of an occupational safety and health management system as a tool for continual improvement in the prevention of workplace incidents and accidents.
Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation organised a seminar titled ‘Occupational Health and Safety Rights in Bangladesh
While presenting the keynote paper, the foundation’s research consultant M Shahadat Hossain Khan said the workers of Barapukuria coal mine were deprived of their rights according to International Labour Law.
The speakers alleged that Barapukuria Coal Mine Authority did not pay overtime to the lowly paid miners who sometimes have to work more than the scheduled eight hours duty.
The only Chinese doctor at the site refused to treat Bangladeshis, most of whom suffer from asthma, cough, eczema, sinusitis, and foot infections, labour leaders said demanding appointment of a local doctor to take care of the workers.
Citing newspaper statistics, OSHE executive director AR Chowdhury Ripon said in Bangladesh
He added that occupational accidents mostly happened in mineral resources industries like Barapukuria Coal Mine Company Ltd.
Source: New Age. 29 April 2011
No comments:
Post a Comment