Young workers ignore labour safety, hygiene rules
A new report shows that young workers have been victims of more than 54 per cent of fatal workplace accidents over the past two years.
A 2008 survey by the Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour revealed that 227 young people among 416 workers had died on the job last year, while fatalities for the first six months of this year were 95 out of 175 workers.
All of them were of working age, ranging between 18 and 30 years old.
Nguyen An Luong, chairman of the Labour Safety and Hygiene Association, said that most young labourers relied on their good health and ignored safety regulations.
“Training courses on labour safety and hygiene are ineffective, despite the fact that young workers attend them regularly,” Luong said.
They are usually offered risky jobs at complicated and narrow construction sites. Many of them are reckless and put themselves in danger,” Vinh said.
The popular causes of these accidents were toxic chemical spills, electric shocks, being cut by sharp objects and falling from high places, he said.
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