National labour safety directors assure compensation for victims of Phuket building collapse 

By The Phuket News

 

Wanarat Srisuksai, Director of the Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health, and Department of Labour Protection and Welfare Inspector-General Anan Bowonnaowarak inspect the site of the building collapse yesterday (Nov 22). Photo: PR Dept
 

PHUKET: Two key national figures for worker safety have assured that state compensation is forthcoming for those injured and the families of those killed in the building collapse in Phuket on Thursday that claimed seven lives and left two injured in hospital.

 

Wanarat Srisuksai, Director of the Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health, under the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare (DLPW) of the Ministry of Labour, and DLPW Inspector-General Anan Bowonnaowarak inspected the site of the building collapse yesterday (Nov 22).

 

Joining the two key national worker safety figures was Phuket Vice Governor Thanyawat Charnpinit and Marasi Jairungsri, Chief of the Phuket Social Security Office.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/national-labour-safety-directors-assure-compensation-for-victims-of-phuket-building-collapse-73724.php#TooSDTbUvv6A6bgs.97

 

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If these are National Safety Directors, this new article should be about what their investigation has shown as causes for this collapse. To talk instead about compensation for victims for the workers families means they have their priorities all wrong and do not care about workers. Compensation should be automatic, but not their prime concern.

 

Find ALL the causes and deal with those first. Then publish the findings and let the families and public know what went wrong and put irreversible corrective actions in place at all current and future construction sites. That is what the families want as well as all other construction workers.

 

That is what a Safety Director should be doing! 

 

Ken Thompson

Former General Motors and Dana Incorporated

Asia Pacific Regional Safety Director

Hi Ken,

 

Did you get the memo when you moved to a third world country?

1 hour ago, KhunKenAP said:

all other construction workers.

All workers, need more safety policies and procedures taught, followed and 

enforced.

I read yesterday that they are checking how many illegal workers so does that mean the illegal ones dont get compensated?

 

The construction was illegal and not supposed to be built.....a stop order issued on Nov 6 ignored....

The municipal building people must have passed the site umpteen times and the building was fairly advanced, but nothing done until 2 weeks ago.

I put much of the blame on the authorities.

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Wanarat Srisuksai, Director of the Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health, under the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare (DLPW) of the Ministry of Labour

Must be a cushy job sat in an office all day doing nothing....

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health,

 

Thailand has such a thing?  Never heard of it, or read of it, before...

 

It's gotta be the best hidden, least active, most useless department in the entire government.

 

As the building collapse in the OP illustrates.

 

7 hours ago, ChipButty said:

I read yesterday that they are checking how many illegal workers so does that mean the illegal ones dont get compensated?

 

No in the full story,they are going to make any illegal workers, legal

so they can get compensation.700.000 Thb for each worker killed

regards Worgeordie

 

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Must be a cushy job sat in an office all day doing nothing....

Probably one of the thousands of 'inactive posts' we read about daily.......

each family will get Bt.10,000 and a bag of rice.

5 hours ago, worgeordie said:

No in the full story,they are going to make any illegal workers, legal

so they can get compensation.700.000 Thb for each worker killed

regards Worgeordie

 

How sad. Isn't life cheap £20,000. Mind you some years ago I read about similar at a hospital and I think the hospital quickly went round the relatives offering 10,000baht if they signed a form saying that was it. Yep life is cheap.