ThaiHome Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Thaihome, All road compactors/rollers are known all over the world as steam rollers, the name just carried on. I haven seen a real one in yonks. I hope you are not getting politically correct on us now!? Well, my company has several hundred of them all over the world I don't recall them ever being referred to as steam rollers, except by people not in the business. Besides the semantic issue, which is really no big deal, my point was that stupid things happen in construction all over the world and if no one was seriously hurt, people stand around and laugh about it, not just in Thailand. Thailand is actually miles ahead of many deveolping countries in construction safety. Try China or India if you want to see real stupid things. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Miles ahead? Here is what I have seen just walking around, No ear protection No eye protection No safety boots No safety harness No safety netting No hard hats Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 OK...if you don't correctly call them "steam rollers" what should they be called? Couldn't a "road compactor" be another machine, like the ait operated ones operated by a single construction worker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 No ear protection No eye protection No safety boots No safety harness No safety netting No hard hats I had the same thought the first time I saw Eden... shocking disregard for physical safety! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 known as a steamroller in my Country. a lot of them at my works at the moment and when i asked ordinary mortals 'what's that' they came up with 'steamroller' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Miles ahead? Here is what I have seen just walking around, No ear protection No eye protection No safety boots No safety harness No safety netting No hard hats I assume you walked by a small construction site, probably on Suk somewhere? That is hardly a typical large construction site in Thailand. Right now, my company is managing contractors in Thailand that have worked over 10 million hours in the past year without an LTI. You would not see any of these things on our projects. How many workers did you see? 20, 30? We have hundreds at 6 different sites. I worked in China for 2 years, despite our best efforts to get the Chinese construction companies to adopt international standards, their unwillingness to truly commitment caused 6 people to lose their lives. We have not had a non-vehicular fatality in Thailand in over 10 years. Yeah, miles ahead... :smirk: TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted July 25, 2006 Report Share Posted July 25, 2006 Constructing/repairing roads, hotels, commercial bldgs. Would you trust the accident records of Thai companies? "Somchai not dead. He go home." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 Constructing/repairing roads, hotels, commercial bldgs. Would you trust the accident records of Thai companies? "Somchai not dead. He go home." Of course small Thai construction companies are not up to international standards in safety practices or reporting. I don't think I ever said that. What I did say, and continue to say, is Thailand is miles ahead of many other developing countries, particularly China and India, in construction safety. I beleive if you were to ask any western construction person that has worked in Asia they would confirm that Thailand is not any near the bottom. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickfarang Posted July 26, 2006 Report Share Posted July 26, 2006 "My mother still calls the fridge the ice box ..." I call it an icebox! I don't want to know how old your mother is. (She may be the same age as me.) The operator was never heard from again: This is typically Thai sounding. How many traffic accidents have we heard of where the driver left the scene before the police arrived? (I am, in particular, thinking of accidents involving busses) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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