And Finally … Safety First!
April 7th, 2008 | by This is China! |A friend building a factory in the deep interior of China recently called me with tragic news. One of his Chinese operators had been killed in the machine the worker was tending. It seemed it all happened within ten minutes: the victim’s work partner had gone off to get some materials; when the partner returned the machine had eaten the operator’s shirt, and strangled the operator; twelve minutes later, they were in the hospital, doctors in attendance, but the operator could not be saved.
My friend could not understand how the accident had happened. In the twenty years the machine had been in use in the West, there had not been one accident, leave alone a fatality.
In the May 2008 issue of Eurobiz Magazine I’ll be talking more about safety issues in the China production facilities Westerners manage. Write in now with some of your safety stories and company policies.
Who knows, some of your wisdom just may save someone’s life.
