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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