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"Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We are doubling down on safety precautions and training to prevent any further workplace hazards
by m12k 4y ago
"Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We are doubling down on safety precautions and training to prevent any further workplace hazards. While complete safety is impossible to achieve on a project of this scale, we are using our massive wealth to ensure our construction sites follow international best practices in this area. We value the lives and wellbeing of our workers and will take every measure possible to ensure they are safe while performing their jobs"
You know, the kind of thing you expect people to say in societies that value human life, and see migrant workers as humans, and not just cheap disposable robots.
- tazjin 4y agoWhat I'm getting at is that even if he had _said_ that, it doesn't actually mean anything about whether it's true or not. In contrast American companies might say something like that and then do nothing once the news cycle moves on.
- fancyfredbot 4y agoIf you can't even pretend to care, that says a lot. It says even more that he knows he can get away with it.
- mud_dauber 4y agoOr: "Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We have contacted his family, made all the arrangements for a dignified flight home, memorial service and created a financial fund to compensate the family for his loss. It's the least we could do."
- sphinxster 4y agoThere are 1+ million migrant workers in Qatar. Roughly, the average human mortality rate is about 1% per year. In a given population of 1 million, you could expect about 27 to die, on average each day. (0.01x1000000)/365 = 27 Sure, more elderly people make up the 1%, and if accounting for the workers ages maybe you'll have half that figure. Or a quarter. The point is, in context, one worker dying out of a million on any given day is unfortunately expected. It doesn't mean it's not sad, or that the persons life was worthless, or that the death should not be investigated to determine the cause. It does mean that out of 1 million, thousands will ordinarily die during any given year. How many times per day would it take for an authority to issue a statement like the above before such statements begin to seem trite and meaningless?
- goto11 4y ago> the average human mortality rate is about 1% per year Are you talking about death from any reason? Because I don't think anyone expect the Qatar authorities to comment on someone dying from a water-skiing accident or from old age. Given migrant worker have to be healthy enough to travel and work, one would assume their mortality was significantly lower than average. The question, of course, is work-accidents. Does migrant workers in Qatar have the same rate of work accidents as workers in other rich countries?
- patrickaljord 4y agoI guess ChatGPT wasn't out at the time.
- twobitshifter 4y agoYou shouldn’t use the entire country, use the number of workers working on the World Cup.
- sphinxster 4y agoWhere is the line? One could equally then argue use the number working on only the one construction site. Eventually a point can be reached where 1 death may "seem" improbable. A wider view reveals a context people seem to have missed.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoEnsure efforts will be taken while deflecting any sort of actual responsibility. Nobody made a mistake. The death is just a tragic event. Nobody could have seen it coming, but now that we have realized it can happen, we will try very hard to ensure the event doesn't repeat itself. That's the script alright. I'm not convinced anyone is truly convinced the words are true. But it's the words you're supposed to say when an employee dies. Of course they won't take every possible measure to ensure worker safety. It's more like, every possible measure that doesn't affect the bottom line too much. Construction work is dangerous in any country. People get hurt, sometimes they die, and there are diminishing returns efforts to mitigate this fact.