> He actually said that
What is he supposed to say instead?
What is he supposed to say instead?
You know, the kind of thing you expect people to say in societies that value human life, and see migrant workers as humans, and not just cheap disposable robots.
Sure, more elderly people make up the 1%, and if accounting for the workers ages maybe you'll have half that figure. Or a quarter. The point is, in context, one worker dying out of a million on any given day is unfortunately expected.
It doesn't mean it's not sad, or that the persons life was worthless, or that the death should not be investigated to determine the cause. It does mean that out of 1 million, thousands will ordinarily die during any given year.
How many times per day would it take for an authority to issue a statement like the above before such statements begin to seem trite and meaningless?
Are you talking about death from any reason? Because I don't think anyone expect the Qatar authorities to comment on someone dying from a water-skiing accident or from old age. Given migrant worker have to be healthy enough to travel and work, one would assume their mortality was significantly lower than average.
The question, of course, is work-accidents. Does migrant workers in Qatar have the same rate of work accidents as workers in other rich countries?
Nobody asks them to issue a statement every time a worker was killed. This was what he said when was asked specifically about the incident. Still think it's trite and meaningless?
That's the script alright.
I'm not convinced anyone is truly convinced the words are true. But it's the words you're supposed to say when an employee dies.
Of course they won't take every possible measure to ensure worker safety. It's more like, every possible measure that doesn't affect the bottom line too much. Construction work is dangerous in any country. People get hurt, sometimes they die, and there are diminishing returns efforts to mitigate this fact.
"Even a single preventable death on a job site is one too many. We have contacted his family, made all the arrangements for a dignified flight home, memorial service and created a financial fund to compensate the family for his loss. It's the least we could do."