27.08.2008
Death Wish 15
The front page of yesterday’s Gulf News business section carried a great picture of state of the art scaffold erection techniques under the headline “Dubai Gears Up For New Season” The photo shows five men erecting an ‘all round’ scaffold type system they are all hanging on to the structure at one end with no apparent attempt at any basis safety considerations.
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How to erect scaffold in Dubai
The UAE is a strange mixed bag when it comes to safety, on the one hand some of its construction sites feature the best working practices in the world and yet at the same time it has some appallingly dangerous sites where life appears to be treated as a commodity.
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