Occupational Safety and Health Specialist Dale Beresford has told Stabroek Business that last Friday’s electrical accident at the Bauxite Company Guyana Inc’s (BCGI) Kurubuku Mines ought to be the subject of an independent investigation and that investigation should be undertaken and the findings made public without delay.
Chief Occupational Safety and Health Officer Charles Ogle has told this newspaper that the Ministry of Labour was preparing to investigate last Friday’s electrical explosion in which BCGI electrician Allan Benn sustained serious burns to his face, chest and hands.
But Beresford said that apart from the fact that BCGI is partially owned by the Government of Guyana and that a Ministry of Labour investigation would effectively amount to an employer investigating itself, there is also the question of “whether or not there may not be limits to the capacity of the Ministry of Labour to deliver a result the is
