Thailand: Safety measures for tourists 'in urgent need of upgrade'

[Fex Bluse]

8 hours ago, Lingba said:

need of upgrade???...a bunch of bs fodder for the media!...Thailand doesn't know how to implement what they already have in place...how can they possibly upgrade?

Maybe it will be in the Thailand 4.1 release? 

[Odysseus123]

17 hours ago, cookieqw said:

I gleaned this from another article. Seemed to hit a spot with me !

 

Also Thailand typically does not have a 'blame culture', where a culprit must be found for any misadventure. There is a more fatalistic acceptance of things going wrong, less public clamour for accountability.

Actually,I think that Thailand does have a very highly developed "blame" culture.It is just that it is never employed against themselves if they can get away with it..it only applies to foreigners and those not born or having citizen rights within the kingdom.

They certainly shake off their 'fatalism' pretty smartly if they think that "the blamed" can't fight back.

 

 

[Dave67]

Safety measures for tourists 'in urgent need of upgrade'

 

I know its not a funny subject but something about that picture of the sunken ship along with the headline made me laugh. It's like "Really why? oh there's a picture of sunken ship"

 

 

[Number 6]

When you look at the road accidents coupled with the safety record at near bottom. Add the petty violent crime around Pattaya and Phuket, Thailand is a very dangerous holiday destination.

[Fex Bluse]

21 hours ago, cookieqw said:

I gleaned this from another article. Seemed to hit a spot with me !

 

Also Thailand typically does not have a 'blame culture', where a culprit must be found for any misadventure. There is a more fatalistic acceptance of things going wrong, less public clamour for accountability.

On the Guilt-Shame-Fear Index Thailand is usually thought to be approximately: Guilt=10%, Shame=60%, Fear=30%. So you can imagine that whenever they have the opportunity to place Blame (which goes with Guilt) without interfering with Shame or Fear (farangs are not important in the Shame spectrum, and, unlike many, many Thais, will not immediately respond with Fear (violence)), they jump at the opportunity.  It's perfect for them. Blame foreigners as much as possible to use up our 10%.  LOL

http://honorshame.com/culture-profile-thailand/ 

[kevc]

International customers international standards, quite simply you need safety inspectors to check regularly then you need inspectors to check the inspectors and then you need inspectors to check the inspectors who are checking the inspectors.

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[Eligius]

2 minutes ago, kevc said:

International customers international standards, quite simply you need safety inspectors to check regularly then you need inspectors to check the inspectors and then you need inspectors to check the inspectors who are checking the inspectors.

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And in Thailand, all those 'inspectors' would be corrupt!

Let's face it: corruption is not just a part of the culture here; in many ways, it IS the culture!

 

[5633572526]

On 7/13/2018 at 7:08 AM, alfalfa19 said:

well, it's big of them to not blame the victims. 

Prawit  already did that