17 Sunday Mar 2013
Posted in LB Culture, LB Social, Lebanon, Media Monitoring, TV
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Construction, Health and Safety in Lebanon, lebanon, Media, MTV, Occupational health and safety, Safety, Serge Zarka, Tv
I salute Serge Zarka the host of Seven – the weekly show on MTV – for his response to my twitter request and tackling health and safety in his last episode last night.
28 Monday May 2012
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Asbestos, Hazardous waste, Health and Safety in Lebanon, Lebanese government, lebanon, Occupational health and safety, Safety
As if the Lebanese government is in short of methods of how to kill its own people. Every now and then, we get either environmental disasters like dumping hazardous waste in the ecosystem or health disasters like having to deal with corrupted food.
09 Thursday Feb 2012
Posted in LB Culture, Lebanon
This post was written for LBC Blogs, and published on 3rd February 2012. Please click here to check out there.
We have experienced a sudden frenzy over safety in Lebanon in the last couple weeks triggered by the sad building collapse in Achrafieh. This aberration initiated again the endemic worries over the infamous Jal Al-Dib flyover bridge, the extensive media coverage, and the activism of some local authorities and parliamentary committees who originated the discussions on how they can improve the general public safety.
21 Thursday Jul 2011
Posted in MB Culture, MicroBlogs
In reference to my previous post The ‘Health and Safety’ culture in Lebanon, please enjoy painfully this crazy photo from Beirut.
16 Saturday Jul 2011
Posted in LB Culture, Lebanon, Media Monitoring, TV
What you see below is screen shot from the prime news programme on MTV – the Lebanese TV channel – on Friday 8th July 2011. It was shown as part of a reportage on the illegal advertising billboards on the streets in Lebanon. The MTV reporter was worried that these illegal chaotic billboards visually pollute the scene, and could be at risk of falling as result of strong winds (as previously happened).
MTV reporter was spot on with these worries, but what worried me of his worries was that he missed a main ‘health and safety’ concern: the men climbing, walking and working from heights without any proper protection. There wasn’t any barrier to protect them, and they were not connected with any ropes. Moreover, they didn’t wear any personal protective equipment (known as PPE).
01 Wednesday Jun 2011
A reportage was shown yesterday by the Lebanese Channel Murr TV (MTV) about a pothole in a bridge deck joint on a highway in Beirut, Lebanon. They were shedding the light on the lack of maintenance by the Public Works Ministry.
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