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| Garment workers employed by the King First Industrial Co factory recover yesterday at Calmette Hospital in Phnom Penh after a mass fainting episode. Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post |
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Chhay Channyda and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
The Phnom Penh Post
About 60 female workers at a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district were rushed to a nearby hospital yesterday after fainting from inhaling paint fumes.
Tuol Sangke commune police chief Huy Hean said that workers at King First Industrial Co Ltd began vomiting and complaining of dizziness and nausea in the morning.
“The female workers smelled paint that had been applied to the floor, so they were not well. Some vomited, and some were dizzy,” he said.
Rong Rrey Loth told the Post yesterday that she had felt tired and dizzy, but that her situation was “minor compared to others who fell unconscious.... We choked after inhaling the smell from the paint”, she said.
Neang Nak, 26, claimed that although she felt sick and could not “bear the paint smell”, the company did not initially allow her to leave.
Factory administration official Tes Sithan confirmed that approximately 60 workers had been sent to Calmette Hospital yesterday morning, after they began fainting about an hour after arriving to work. “I think that the fainting resulted from the bad smell from the paint on the floor of the new building in the factory,” she said.
Police chief Huy Hean said the factory eventually closed for the day after a request from authorities.
Meng Hong, a member of a committee for preventing workplace injuries at the Ministry of Labour, said the committee had recommended to the factory that it improve its working conditions before reopening. “We advised the factory to fulfill certain working conditions, like proper ventilation,” he said.
Free Trade Union officer Ouk Khen, who observed the fainting, echoed Meng Hong’s concerns. “The factory needs to be revamped because it is stuffy and has no fresh air, so that when the door is open, bad smell comes in,” he said. Despite these calls, factory administration official Tes Sithan said she had not received word from her boss that the factory would be closed today.
Van Sonny, 32, one of the fainting workers, said she too was awaiting word. “I want the company to be shut down, but there is no information yet, because tomorrow I have to work again,” she said.
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C'EST LA RESPONSABILITÉ DU PROPRIÉTAIRE DE LA PLACE ET NON JAMAIS DES PRÉTEXTES QUI EST RESPONSABLE , IL FAUT QUE LE PROPRIÉTAIRE DOIT PAYER LES DOMMAGES INTÉRETS POUR SES EMPOYÉS EN QUESTIONS ET NON JAMAIS LES PRÉTEXTES QUI ONT LES FAUTES ALORS ,SOYEZ RÉSONNABLE ET NON JAMAIS LA RAISON DU PLUS FORT ESTTOUJOURS LA MEILLEUR S V P( AU NOM DE DIEU!).
chemical WarFare?
its too offend, with no explaination!
If the Union or the workers want to better the production, there is only one way to do this:
Find out which international brand this factory is producing for, and NAME these brand(s)!!!
Send the reports including the names of the brands to international News Magazines, only the customers in the western countries can boykott the goods and help the workers in Cambodia.
Public pressure in the consumers countries is nessessary!
Reports in Cambodia wont help at all.
Got it?
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