By Dale Beresford
It comes as no surprise to me that in the wake of three serious workplace accidents in coastal Guyana in about three weeks neither the Ministry of Labour, the private sector nor the trade union movement have issued a substantive statement on these accidents. That is simply a reflection of the prevailing widespread stakeholder insensitivity to the matter of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) at the workplace.
One might have thought that the fact that in one instance a young man lost his life, another worker had a leg cut off and a third was badly burnt might have focused a far greater measure of attention on the incidents. That has turned not to be the case.
Informed pronouncements on the three accidents must of course await the findings of the obligatory reports by the
