Workplace Safety: Better Safe than Sorry

A man working on the rooftop of a building is performing a site inspection. Since the procedure is routine and brief, he decides to bypass the safety harness. One misstep later and he becomes the middleman between a 25ft. rooftop and the ground. The man is no longer able to work – but that’s the happy version of a story that could have had a fatal ending.

This is just one of the unfortunate real-life scenarios that Roberto Desai, owner of Advance Safety World Limited, has the displeasure of hearing on a daily basis. “There are a lot of workplace injuries that take place every single day that can be avoided; you just have to know what could happen to a person and try to prevent it,” says Desai. Read more