Mr Meeseeks

No surprise, Chuan defended his brother who embezzled billions from a Thai bank, fled the country and only returned after the statute of limitations expired.

Good luck with that, they are useless in my experience. I took my Interceptor there for a service and told them to replace the battery. They didn't, said it was ok, they had recharged it. Subsequently it died on me a few days later. Also, I asked the mechanic to affix the front brake lines together as the master line was flapping about. He couldn't even cable tie the cables together.

Firstly, the check-in counter should be asking to see any carry on baggage and if it is not of a suitable size or weight, see that it is checked in. However, with the amount of penny-pinchers travelling by air these days, many airlines charge additional fees for checked in luggage. It is getting increasingly common to see larger and larger bags being brought into the cabin, especially on budget airlines. All the passenger needs to do is not turn up at the desk with the carry on bag or hide it from the check-in staff. This system is not infallible and is easily manipulated and circumvented entirely. Let's be honest the check-in staff are often not bothered at all. The airport security then stop anyone with oversized hand baggage at the checkpoint before immigration, and send them back to the check-in desk. That is one of their responsibilities and I have personally seen them doing this in Thailand and other countries.

They will not let a civilian government wield enough power to affect change. That would directly threaten their income and status. Being a general and working the system, bullying others and grafting with the connections they make is the only way these goons can advance themselves.

I will never do longer distance journeys in these vans. I survived visa runs on them in the mid-90s and numerous sojourns to Pattaya over the years, never again.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Seriously, do none of these people realise that they are in Thailand and the rules are different here?

Used to be the late night expat hangout in the mid to late 90's and early 00's. I was down there nearly every night! Saw Trink many times on our travels! Some great bars down there; Pam's, Shark, Dollhouse, Cactus, Five Star, The Old Dutch, Penny Black upstairs etc... All turned into a bit of a tourist trap neon wonderland now. The charm has definitely been lost.

The Police shutting down the competition? Times must be tough.

No need. It's obvious that is one of their responsibilities.

Monitoring oversized baggage is one of the roles and responsibilities of airport security at the security checkpoints.

In which case, the airport is still at fault for letting her carry on that size of suitcase against their own procedures and regulations.

Fascino sell wheelchairs for about 4,500thb. They have branches everywhere. ????

These old guys have to understand a simple concept of Buddhism – everything is temporary, nothing is permanent.

Simply this. ☝️

Swamping is a religious practice now?

My ex's son thought the same. 10yo and always dipping into her handbag or my wallet for money which he would spend on snacks at school or on mobile games. It went largely un-noticed until his older brother, who is a good lad, spilled the beans. She admonished him, by shouting and beating him with a coathanger until he was screaming bloody murder.

Only if they are owned by Thais with connections.

Doing what he is best at, eating and in this case, sleeping.

A stupid idea that was designed to profit a few people through graft. Usual standards of Thai planning, management and maintenance applied thereafter.

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.