I am pretty astonished that my backside has not yet detached itself from what I used to know as my mostly able bodied body....Moeg, gatvol, irritated.
We started pretty slowly, observing Reece Kahn training a group of guys. On Wednesday morning though, we arrived at a construction site in Johannesburg. Let me not name any names as to who’s site it is, but allow me to note that with regard to health and safety IT WAS A SHOCKER!! Desperately disappointing that people still have to work on sites that like that. Anyway, let’s not get caught up in that as the focus was for us to experience the manual labour environment and subjecting yourself to the conditions found in the industry.
At first I didn’t really know why we had to do this but we did learn a few things. We saw how labourers blindly follow what their employers ask of them because they pay their salaries. Labourers unfortunately do not know what they are entitled to according to the OHS Act. In my opinion, somehow this has to change. There were so many substandard acts, conditions and procedures. If I had to mention all of these it would take me a week. Non-compliance with regard to work at heights was especially prominent. Hopefully some of you can one day attend a course that I present so that you can hear some of the examples that I use, which I gained from these experiences.
So, from this moeg Dutchman as Mr. L. Watson refers to us - have a great weekend, May the Bulls whoop the Lions, and the sun shine where your cattle grazes....
Stay classy,
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