When you watch the construction of buildings in Kuwait you wonder how they continue standing. This project seems to be taking forever with it's 3 man crew. As you can see safety doesn't exist in Kuwait, no hats, safety shoes or equipment, just guys wearing slippers and praying they make it through the day.
larger, well known and established construction comapnies are not like this (especially on govt construction projects - drive by where they're building the new jaber hospital for instance)
ReplyDeletethis appears to be a meesly apartment block and so a smaller probably fly by night construction company
You're so right. I walked into a new high-rise near AUK (Salem Al Mubarak St), and suggested to the Project Manager he should use handrails where there are exposed drops. He laughed at me, asked me who I was, and who was my sponsor. 2 months later a worker fell and died.
ReplyDeleteNext to my workmate in Shaab Bangladeshi workers were demolishing an apartment by removing ground floor columns!! My workmate (also a structural engineer) told the manager this was not safe. A few weeks later it collapsed, 4 workers were missing, but the demolition company said they probably ran away, so there was no investigation. Huh!!
The same thing happened to another Shaab apartment the following month.