SANJIV PANDITA
Put on the mask - or you will die
Take a public bus in Hong Kong and you are most likely to be exposed to countless advertisements on ‘state-of-the-art’ LCD screens that are installed on almost all the buses here. Along with the advertisements, passengers are also made to watch various public messages from different government departments.
The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Council, a statutory body, often runs such public education messages on these buses. Messages often focus on how one should correctly use the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as the masks, goggles, helmets, or ear plugs to prevent damage to one’s body. One of the most interesting messages, that has been playing recently shows a construction worker using a pneumatic drill, who is reluctant to use the face mask. It takes an emotional twist, when that worker goes home and his wife and young son plead with him to wear the mask for their sake; from next day onwards he wears the mask.

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KONG ATHIT
Using the Tack Fat factory as an example, this report looks at common hazards faced daily by workers in the garment factories of Cambodia. The report gives some idea about working conditions related to occupational safety and heath. As a result of the globalisation of trade, this statement shows how those workers suffered from the Multifibre Arrangement garment and textile quota system that supplied the US and EU until this year, and the
ongoing special agreement between the Cambodian and US governments for garment and textiles production.

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SANJIV PANDITA
Mae-Sot is a town bordering Burma in the Tak province of Thailand. There are about 100,000 Burmese migrant workers working in Mae Sot predominantly in garment factories but also in the construction and agricultural sectors. The working conditions in the garment factories
are pretty dismal; workers have to work for very long hours with very low wages and almost no rights.Many organisations working in the area have elaborately documented the labour rights and human rights situation in the area.

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