OFW Workers In Qatar

Biggest problem is that with no alcohol sales in the stadiums thousands of people are finding out how boring the games are.

The FIFA World Cup will be in Qatar 2022.
The stadium has been under construction for many years. I read today between 400 to 500 people have died during construction.

So I Googled Filipino OFW in Qatar and came up with 260,000 Filipino's working in Qatar.

I'm waiting to read how many attendees died in stampedes when the games are over.
-@Enzyte Bob

Rushing to the bar Bob?

Aside those figures are staggering and simply shows the value on life there, in saying that? All my workers here can't believe my safety standards here onsite.

Fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, a very good and expensive first aid kit, 4 inch foam mattresses, bath and toilets, kitchen and cooking facilities, morning and afternoon tea supplied, lunch cooked for them every day and I'm sure they suffer my constant corrections because they have it pretty good, they have even mentioned that to Ben. All very hard workers mistakes and all.

I see the Mayor here that has been buying lots of land and has about the same number of workers as us and lets 5 or 6 of them sleep in his open air Kubo next to us on the beach, God knows where they do their ablutions and who feeds them, think the other 4 or 5 are locals and go home.

The Philippines has some pretty laxy daisy safety regs but obviously many countries are worse.

Here it comes Bob. OMO. (or should I let that go?)

Cheers, Steve

Aside those figures are staggering and simply shows the value on life there, in saying that? All my workers here can't believe my safety standards here onsite.

-@bigpearl

https://www.eurosport.com/football/worl … tory.shtml

Numbers from the horse's mouth

Start at 7 minutes in

Biggest problem is that with no alcohol sales in the stadiums thousands of people are finding out how boring the games are.
-@mugteck

Football requires alcohol to be worth watching. That is why so many people are pissed off.

Aside those figures are staggering and simply shows the value on life there, in saying that? All my workers here can't believe my safety standards here onsite.
-@bigpearl


https://www.eurosport.com/football/worl … tory.shtml

Numbers from the horse's mouth

Start at 7 minutes in
-@Fred

I never found 7 minutes in Fred but I get the drift. The really sad thing is that no one there knows the true numbers so it could be thousands. How can these people not tally the actual numbers? Because they don't care.

As said before OH+S should be on the top off every construction/work site as it is here on my site in the Philippines. The guys when they started/start all went through my health and safety retinue and I saw the occasional smirk but they listened and try to follow. I supply them with all PPE as well as site safety including and some of them audibly laughed when I introduced to them plastic safety caps for all protruding rebar whether vertical or horizontal, put them on or go home.

I don't want any accidents or deaths as they are far more costly than the measly expenses of implementing correct safety standards, been there and done that, Back to what Qatar is doing? They don't care as they are foreign workers and they can't even keep a tally on the numbers, look at human rights records.

My life, a foreign workers life is equal to the current sheikh of Qatar. Is it 400 or 4,000 work related deaths?

Sorry for the rant as deaths on work sites are and can be easily avoided/stopped.

Cheers, Steve.

Yeh I heard part of this interview on Talk Sport whilst driving yesterday, I think the figure is probably much higher than 4 or 5 hundred deaths and each one could have been prevented. The OFW Workers are no doubt paid a pittance to work long hours, doing a physically demanding job without being kitted out with PPE, insufficient breaks and poor living conditions. One death is too many and like BigPearl says above, the cost of implementing decent safety standards is nothing if it saves deaths.

I do not agree that booze is needed to enjoy the matches before or during, much more enjoyable afterwards if you can sit in a bar with friends and supporters of the opposing team and have some banter.

Funny things is that Budweiser is one of the sponsors and they had an agreement that they could sell their beer in the stadiums until a change of plan two days before the start of the tournament, Bet they were unhappy about that. At the end of the first match I watched, England's first game I think, after the match just when they were going back to the studio for analysis of the match, the last words I heard from the stadium were " And the Budweiser man of the match is no 17".

Crazy having the World Cup there in the first place and all due to back handers. Wrong time of year to have it also. Kind of reminds me of the film Cool Runnings about the Jamaican Bob Team.

Also on the subject of football itself, I can see a scenario where it ends up more like an NFL Game with four quarters, I say this because of the number of American owners of Prem Teams, the greed to constantly bring more money into the game through advertising and the need to have water breaks in the hot weather half way through each half. Why not sneak in a cheeky advertising break.