A place for my personal thoughts/views on safety, with focus on industrial safety.
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Mar 29, 2008
Borewells - Death traps
It is usual to read fall of children in the bore holes. The incidents repeat. Everybody expresses their sympathy, TV Channels cover live of the efforts by concerned authorities. They show frame by frame the sorrowful faces of parents and relatives of the victim. Then, after few days of the incident everybody forgets. Again the old footage comes in to open when a similar incident happens again. Special courts should be constituted to deliver immediate judgement to the persons who left the borewells open causing children to fall into them. Then only proper protective measures like barricading the area, providing cover with lock and key to the bore hole, etc will be taken. Though, fear works only when it is put into practice, however, such a situation may bring awareness to the persons responsible for digging borewells so that they will be rendered safe.