A hard-hitting film by the Health & Safety Executive highlights the real-world impact of workplace accidents, and the importance of edge protection and guard rails, as well as precautions against other threats like asbestos and electricity.
The video, entitled Turning Concern Into Action, marks the culmination of the HSE’s Safer Sites campaign, which has been running in recent weeks to urgently encourage those with responsibility for workplace safety to ensure adequate protection is in place.
In the film, victims and family members speak about a variety of accidents, including one man burned after drilling into a cable, one who developed cancer due to asbestos exposure, and a man killed in a collapsing trench.
But several of the stories feature falls from height – still one of the biggest workplace killers – and the video opens on a shot of a wheelchair-bound man staring out to sea.
Ian Whittingham fell through a fragile roof – something that can be prevented with guard rails around any weak parts, and walkovers to provide a safe route across – and says he knew he would never walk again from the moment he hit the floor.
The video ends on a powerful message: “They deserve more. It shouldn’t be happening.”
With suitable edge protection, walkovers and other such safety precautions, all workplaces can be made ‘safer sites’, and nobody needs to become another statistic in the years to come.
Filamu ya Health & Safety Executive (HSE) inaonyesha athari za ajali za kazini na umuhimu wa ulinzi wa makali na rails za ulinzi, pamoja na tahadhari dhidi ya vitisho vingine kama vile asbestos na umeme. "Video hiyo, yenye kichwa ""Turn Concern into Action,"" inaashiria kilele cha kampeni ya HSE ya ""Safer Sites"" ambayo imekuwa ikiendeshwa katika wiki za hivi karibuni ili kuwachochea haraka wale wenye jukumu la usalama wa mahali pa kazi kuhakikisha ulinzi wa kutosha." Katika filamu hiyo, wahasiriwa na wanafamilia wao wanazungumza kuhusu ajali mbalimbali, ikiwa ni pamoja na mtu mmoja aliyechomwa moto baada ya kuchimba kwenye kebo, mtu mmoja aliyeugua kansa kutokana na kuambukizwa asbestos, na mtu mmoja aliyeuawa katika shimo lililokuwa likiporomoka. Lakini hadithi kadhaa zinaonyesha kuanguka kutoka juu - bado ni moja ya wauaji wakubwa wa mahali pa kazi - na video hufungua kwenye picha ya mtu aliye na kiti cha magurudumu akitazama bahari. Ian Whittingham alianguka kupitia paa dhaifu - kitu ambacho kinaweza kuzuiwa na reli za ulinzi kuzunguka sehemu yoyote dhaifu, na watembeaji kutoa njia salama kuvuka - na anasema alijua kwamba hataweza kutembea tena kutoka wakati alipogonga sakafu. Video hiyo inamalizika kwa ujumbe wenye nguvu: <unk>Wanafaa zaidi. Haipaswi kuwa kutokea. Kwa ulinzi sahihi wa ukingo, walkovers na tahadhari nyingine za usalama, maeneo yote ya kazi yanaweza kufanywa "mahali salama zaidi", na hakuna mtu anayehitaji kuwa takwimu nyingine katika miaka ijayo.