12 May 2011
More than 500 workers took part in the theoretical training on personal, professional and physical safety of the workers, dangerous waste management and conservation of environment at the shipbreaking yards.
Bangladesh Ship Breakers Association (BSBA) has arranged the course at its training institute at Juba Bhaban in the city’s Halishahar area, set up following the HC’s March 7 directive.
A total of 571 cutter foremen, supervisors, leading foremen, fitter foremen, shift-in-charges, cutter men and riggers of different ship breaking yards of coastal Sitakunda received training under the 1st batch that started on 21 April.
After completion of the training, the workers would receive on-the-job-training at different yards.
Two hundred fifty workers have enrolled to receive training under the 2nd batch, BSBA sources said.
Former master mariners and marine engineers from Bangladesh Marine Academy
The training modules were formed in consultation with experts concerned and officials of the Department of Environment (DoE), Department of Explosive, Department of Labour, Department of Youth, Fire Service and Civil Defense and Bangladesh Marine Academy.
Officials from DoE, Chittagong
“It is very nice to see that the workers have already become aware of their safety and environment measures at the shipping yards from the training in such a short time,” said Director of DoE, Chittagong Zafar Alam who visited the training institute on Tuesday.
Source: The Daily Sun. 12 May 2011
2 comments:
I wish them luck and success, not an easy job but at least the government is providing jobs to people this way.
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True, it's not an easy job for a country like Bangladesh, which has no workplace safety culture in place. The condition is more and less similar in all south east Asian countries. It's a good sign that things have started to change in this part of the world although at a very slow pace..............
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