When a worker is over exploited and made to work 10 - 12 hour shifts in any part of the world, the safety protocol is heavily compromised in the case of heavy machinery.
Workers working on Heavy machinery and equipments should not be made to work more than 8 hours per shift.
A labourer needs to be very careful and needs to have full attention and concentration while working on factories and sites that use heavy spinning machines, cranes etc
There's a limit to what a mind and body can take. A 12 hour shift, 6 days a week easily trespasses that limit and compromises on worker's safety while working heavy duty machinery.
Many incidents have happened where workers lost their limbs, lost their lives, got stuck in the spinning machines or even got crushed under forklift trucks. All such incidents can be linked to fatigue and mind & body not receiving adequate rest in-between the shifts.
Non-affordability of a good nutrition and diet while working on minimum wages can also be attributed to the cause of such incidents and accidents.
Working beyond 8 hours on sites where a 15 - 20 list of safety protocols must be followed is simply illegal and unlawful.
Corporates must take their due responsibility for workers to be safe, sound and healthy.
A crane operator commands a good salary because the material he is moving throughout the day, is costly and operating a crane is complicated and comes under the category of highly skilled labour.
Least, companies can do is to keep their low skilled workers and labourers safe, if they can't compensate them adequately.
It is utterly inhuman to make a worker work beyond 8 hours under working conditions where a fraction of a second of distraction or mistake can cause a them to lose their limbs or even their lives.
A worker having strenuous jobs involving heavy machinery having worked 12 hours cannot be expected to be fresh after just 12 hours off-duty. Body and mind needs adequate time to co-op up and also, recreation activities.
Thanks !
Anuj Chugh
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