“Al-Aqaba” silos in Jordan has witnessed many disasters in this period, which resulted in the death of 6 workers, due to the absence of the occupational health and safety conditions.
Media reports confirmed that some workers were killed after being exposed to explosions and burns despite the warnings issued by the workers to the responsibles about the impossibility of continuing to work in these poor and illegal conditions, which lack the provision of protection and medical care and the various necessary health precautions.
The lack of safety and health rules in the silos was not the only problem, in fact, the reports confirmed that all the conditions of a decent work were absent in this institution, mainly the long delays in receiving the salaries and the non-registration of workers in the social security and the lack of the occupational safety and health equipment, despite their risky and dangerous work ,which deepened the harshness of their already poor social conditions due to the high prices, the detriorating of their purchasing power and the growing unemployment rates in the kingdom.
These incidents came in light of that some institutions are not registered in the social security and do not carry any commercial register, which makes workers in the danger of losing all their rights, amid the lack of action by the government, in this regard.
Commenting on these incidents, “Ahmed Awad”, the head of the Labour Observatory, said: "There is chaos in the labour market, resulting from the state’s denial and disregard practiced by the official bodies that manage the labour relations and deny the idea of workers' rights and work according to the assumption that workers have to accept these situations”. In fact, they are the responsible for the victims of the “Al-Aqaba” silos and they are responsible for denying the labour legislations to their rights and the rights of their families. "
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