Mr Meeseeks

The FMEA will only cover the specific travelator equipment, but it should take into account use of any baggage that it may have to handle. As regards to the risk assessment, it should cover ALL hazards, including those resulting from people bringing improper baggage onto travelators. Control measures should then be applied to eliminate this altogether or reduce the risk to an acceptable level.

Then of course there's this:

I assume nothing. Based on experience of 30+ years working in Thailand at management level, I am willing to bet that there isn't a culture of safety at the airport terminal building. The minimum will be done to ensure the boxes are ticked. Let me in there to have an audit, and we'll find out! ???? It will be the usual poor standard of Thai auditing, too scared to give NCs so the client doesn't lose face or in case they anger the boss. A nonsense.

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They should be using checklists, electronic or paper based, to perform proper checks on the equipment as per a written procedure that refers to manufacturer's requirements as well as national and international standards. This task will form part of their periodic maintenance schedule. It should be computer based, but what are the bets that they are still using Excel or some other antiquated way of doing it? There should be reports kept of when the inspection and any maintenance work was performed and who was responsible. As there were teeth missing from the travelator, it is evident that the inspection was not done correctly. And herein lies the problem. Low paid staff without adequate supervision or management will inevitably just turn these tasks into a box ticking exercise and not do them properly. An anecdote for you, I set up a CMMS, computerised maintenance management system, for a Thai company that operates offshore. As Ops Manager it was part of my remit. The system worked great, and was such an improvement over the Excel based system the company used before that the external bodies loved it. It saved money and time, increased efficiency and kept everything ticking along smoothly, reducing equipment failures even in the short term. To stop employees treating inspection and maintenance as a box ticking exercise I personally supervised tasks, and when I could not, I requested photographic proof through the system that these tasks were done. Rarely, if ever, did the staff provide these proofs. I found them sleeping on the job, skiving off, watching porn on the computers etc. I also had third-parties, including OEM, come in to perform additional inspections, at a cost, and to the chagrin of the greedy Thai Chairman and the owner of the company. This was the only way I could ensure our critical equipment was going to work properly as and when required. When I left, within days, I heard the company had gone back to using an antiquated Excel based system. The facility supervisor also left, after a falling out with 'management' as a direct result of maintenance issues. Thais simply don't care about inspection and maintenance. It costs money, and they don't want to have the headache of dealing with it until it breaks.

Was a proper incident investigation conducted to establish the root causes? If an investigation was conducted, was the investigation conducted by a qualified individual or individuals (Kelvin Top Set trained or equivalent)? Does the airport have a health and safety management system with a safety policy? Are all staff aware of the safety policy? Does the airport have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment that highlights the hazards of using travelators, the people that could be harmed, control measures applied and the inherent and residual risks? As part of a suitable and sufficient site risk assessment, have failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) been conducted on the travelators to ensure the risks are reduced to a minimum as reasonably practicable? Has the safety management system, risk assessments, other critical documents and the implementation of them been independently verified by a competent third-party? I could go on, but I would wager the answer to most if not all of the above is no, and that health and safety culture at the airport terminal building is woefully inadequate.

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Interesting how the Cambodian has made headlines, but there are still hundreds, if not thousands of Thais owing large amounts of tollway fees. ????

Driver was on his way to Sattahip. Sounds like he was on the lash all night and on his way to work.

As I said, I have seen many Thais exhibit similar behaviour and mental illness is always the excuse from the media, relatives and friends. Perhaps they are just poorly educated, self-centred, ignorant wretches that lose control when they don't get their own way or face adversity. ????‍♂️ Maybe they are actually mentally ill, without a proper doctor's diagnosis, who knows.

Massive face loss all over the place with this one. Careful Thailand, your slip is showing.

A risk assessment would identify the preventative maintenance required for such equipment. Normally, it should be an FMEA (failure mode effects analysis) done by an engineer, detailing all the required inspection and maintenance in line with manufacturer's recommendations, international and national standards and guidelines etc. This forms part of the overall OHS risk assessment of the facility, in this case DM airport passenger terminal.

Considering the vendor warned the boy not to sit on the wall, the collapse was expected. If only the boy had paid attention and obeyed the adult…

I’ve seen many Thais exhibit this type of behaviour in my 33 years here. Are they all mentally ill? ????

Mental age, yes.

The photos are from the Mail in the UK.

From the photos, it looks to me like the case wheels got jammed in between the moving section of the travellator and the guard, and she's followed it in with her foot. Very nasty indeed.

The problem is there are no risk assessments performed, or if they are done, are not done properly or done by people that are not competent. Health and safety is not a concern here. Seen as a hindrance to profit by greedy bosses.

How can the statistics from Thailand be trusted? For example, we know they don't count those that do not die at the scene, and we are reliant on what sources to properly report and log all traffic accidents? They don't even have professional ambulance services, just volunteers. Sorry, but you'll have to do a lot more than fag packet maths to convince me mate.

Fleeing the scene after causing a fatality while drunk. Despicable creature.

By demonising their poor driving, maybe they will be motivated to do something about it? Nonsense. You are making stuff up to suit your agenda. Commuting to work I see accidents on a very regular basis, I've even seen a hit-and-run happen as well as several fatalities (in the aftermath, fortunately not as they occurred). Never saw that back in the UK.

Looks like one of those modified agricultural utility vehicles being driven as a sports car again.

The great irony is of course that the 1997 constitution, the people's constitution as it was known, was the best one that they had. This was replaced after the coup in 2006. The latest constitution was so the NCPO could give themselves immunity for their treason and allow them to maintain control over the government regardless of the outcome of any election. We are seeing this being implemented now. Thailand has a long history of the Army implementing new constitutions after coups.

Indeed. I was surprised by the amount of people that remained seated last time I was in the theatre to watch John Wick 4. Must have been 50% or more. Some Western tourists who probably didn't know better but a lot of Thais as well.

That is no surprise. Too cowardly to meat out proper punishment (no pun intended).