Worker safety at top of agenda after fatal accident

19 May 2019, 8:20 pm

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All three of Israel’s main newscasts at 8 p.m. lead off with expanded segments on four workers killed at a building site Sunday morning, reflecting frustration over a lack of worker safety.

Activists, labor representatives workers and others point out that enforcement is lax, and punishment against those involved non-existent.

Twenty workers have been killed so far this year, after 38 were killed last year, leading to a commitment by the government to hire dozens of more safety inspectors, apparently to little avail.

Channel 13 news says the crane industry is almost totally unregulated, with anybody able to build or take down the mammoth machines, potentially endangering the public.