More than 120 Line Staff are electrocuted during the performance of their duties as a result of fatal accident and for more become permanently disable due to non-fatal accidents in WAPDA Power Wing every year. The management should ensure safe and healthy working conditions to the Line Staff in order to prevent their tragic accidents which not only causes a great tragedy to their family but also demoralizes their colleagues and great loss to the Institution. Inadequate and poor standard of safety equipments and lack of observance of safety precautions are the main causes of these accidents which can be prevented by promoting and developing preventive safer culture and enlarging vocational training to the Line Staff and brining to book to those who commit negligence in getting observed the safety precautions at work place
Children and dependents of the deceased workers should be ensured free education and provision of employment of their children and they be paid at least two million in order to sustain the family in such tragic situation.The Union has got up-gradation of the Line Staff and provision of Rs.50007- P.M. Danger Allowance to them in recognition of their hazardous nature of duties. Line Staff should also give priority for observance of safety regulations at work place in the interest of saving themselves from accidents and occupational disease and representatives of the Union should also get enforced the safety regulations along with management to ensure safe working conditions to the Line Staff. These demands were expressed in a large conference held today the 6th July, 2011 at Bukhtiar Labour Hall, Lahore on the eve of commemoration of Safety Day under the aegis of Pakistan WAPDA Hydro Electric Central Labour Union addressed by Khurshid Ahmad, General Secretary along with Malik Noor Muhammad, Syed Sajjad Hussain Shah, Syed Zahid Hussain, Rana Muhammad Akram, Osama Tariq and others.
The Safety Day was observed all over the country including Quetta, Hyderabad, Sukkur, Bahawalpur, Multan, Sahivval, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Faisalabad, Mardan, Peshawar, etc. The Conference was also addressed by Ehsan Elahi, Chief Engineer, LESCO who read the message of Mr. Rasool Bakhsh Masud, Managing Director, PEPCO and Mr. Naeem Ullah Awan, Chief Executive Officer, LESCO who assured that the management would continue to make every possible effort to ensure safety and health of the workers at work place and for welfare of the Line Staff and urged them to refuse in case they have no adequate safety equipments and observance of safety regulations at work place. They declared that Line Staff is best asset of our Institution.
Earlier the workers brought out a rally urging the need for observance of Safety to ensure prevention of tragic fatal and non-fatal accidents at work place
Advice prepared by WAPDA - Pakistan
