Social media lends urgency to occupational safety in Myanmar
A construction accident that killed two workers last month in Myanmar was not unusual. In fact, serious workplace incidents are common in the Southeast Asia state, although it’s difficult to quantify them because outdated occupational safety regulations don’t require the comprehensive keeping of such statistics.
What was unusual about the tragedy at the Mandalay hotel construction site -- where two died and 18 were injured when scaffolding collapsed – was that images of the incident were widely shared on social media, which led to calls for updating OSH regulations in Myanmar.