Report slams breaker safety failure
by Fairplay Daily Shipping News, Lloyd's Register
1 March 2005 (Gujarat) – Maritime Board failed to ensure that safety standards were complied with at Alang shipbreaking yard, a damning report has found.
In his report for the financial year ending 31 March 2003, India's Comptroller and Auditor General said the board was responsible for ensuring that demolition companies observed all the safety regulations. However, the report has revealed that repeated failure to observe the rules led to the deaths of 209 workers in 434 incidents between April 1996 and May 2003.
In half of the plots there was no monitoring of cutting operations, the report states. Although the Gujarat Maritime Board entered into a memorandum of understanding with shipbreakers' associations as long ago as June 1997 to study various statutes and provide general guidelines on shipbreaking, no action was taken to implement the proposal.
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