The Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security (MOLHSS) is still to complete reports on four private sector workplace accidents that occurred in various parts of the country between December last year and February, a circumstance which a safety and health consultant has told this newspaper is “unacceptable in the circumstances.”
“Of course there are cases in which these investigations can be drawn out on account of some of the specialized interventions that are required but in the cases of the recent accidents to which you are referring there is really no reason why we ought not to have at least some preliminary reports in by now,” Workplace Safety Solutions Specialist Dale Beresford has told Stabroek Business.
Asked to provide an estimation of the length of time that it ought to have taken for investigative work by the