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TRUCK ACCIDENT * Venezuela - Lessons to Learn from Clarines
Once again a state-run company not investing to keep their equipment up to date, in good working order, creating an unsafe work place
Caracas,Venezuela -VenEconomy/The Latin American Herald Tribune -25 Sept 2009: ... Venezuelan authorities dodge their responsibilities by place the blame on third parties. And once again, we seem to be seeing the same pattern of events with how the accident of the truck transporting the 17 cylinders of chlorine gas that occurred last Wednesday, September 16, in the small town of Clarines, Anzoátegui state is being handled. So far, 11 people have died and 300 have been hurt due to the toxic cargo being transported, of which packaging, handling, and transportation is controlled by the Hazardous Waste and Materials Law... Analysts are a bit concerned that up until now, the only person being charged by the District Attorney’s Office is the driver of the truck, as if the secure transportation of hazardous substances and materials didn’t involve the participation of three different sectors (those who handle it, those who transport it, and those who receive it)... And what is even more worrying is that in this case, the company responsible for handling and transporting the hazardous material, is the state-run Pequiven, a branch of PDVSA... The representative of the transportation company also states that it was Pequiven which was in charge of supervising that all security procedures were being followed with regard to the containers, as well as to the state of the cargo... Sadly, it seems that once again we have a case of a state-run company not investing to keep their equipment up to date, in good working order, cutting corners and generally being inefficient and creating an unsafe work place, mainly because these companies are being run based on political criteria and not managerial ones... (Photo from canaldenoticia: Clarines - Zona del Accidente)Labels: trucks accidents costs
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