A second statement calling for greater safety standards in transporting migrant workers was issued on Wednesday...
The groups in the latest statement added that inaction over this issue is “inexcusable”, “given the wide range of transport alternatives that so many other countries rely on to transport workers in similar industries, including high tech-bus scheduling and shuttle services that allow companies to share buses, mini-buses, goods-and-passenger vehicles, and more.”
The push for safer transport for workers comes after 37 people – including migrant workers – were injured inAccording to the Ministry of Transport’s statistics in 2021, 58 people died and 4,765 people were injured between 2011 and 2020 after they were involved in traffic accidents, while they were travelling in lorries.
Earlier in July, Mr Louis Ng renewed a call in Parliament for the ban, suggesting that the authorities plot a road map to achieve this and implement other safety measures in the interim – such as piloting the use of buses to transport workers for larger construction companies and implementing staggered working hours, which the Government can help to coordinate and provide some funding for.
Mr Ng told The Straits Times on Monday that he will be filing two questions on this issue during the parliamentary sitting next week, including asking about the rationale for the exception under the Road Traffic Act, which allows workers to be transported in lorries.
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