Comments on: Hard Hat, Indian-Style. http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/09/hard-hat-indian-style/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:21:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Daniel Khoo http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/09/hard-hat-indian-style/comment-page-1/#comment-123935 Daniel Khoo Wed, 13 Jun 2007 00:17:45 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/09/hard-hat-indian-style/#comment-123935 Over at boingboing, somebody commented that it's probably just a pad for carrying stuff on his head. It seems an entirely reasonable explanation to me. Over at boingboing, somebody commented that it’s probably just a pad for carrying stuff on his head. It seems an entirely reasonable explanation to me.

]]> By: Astrocat http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/09/hard-hat-indian-style/comment-page-1/#comment-123564 Astrocat Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:39:13 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/06/09/hard-hat-indian-style/#comment-123564 I think that this is a very sad picture. The workers are probably heavily exploited Indian workers, who have been told that they must buy their own safety clothing or equipment, but who are paid such unethically low wages that they can not afford to do so, and are instead resorting to using bits of foam from the building site. If they are injured or killed by things falling on them, the company employing them would most likely just say "well, we told them to buy hard-hats and they didn't, so it's not our problem" That's pretty common. I think that this is a very sad picture.

The workers are probably heavily exploited Indian workers, who have been told that they must buy their own safety clothing or equipment, but who are paid such unethically low wages that they can not afford to do so, and are instead resorting to using bits of foam from the building site.

If they are injured or killed by things falling on them, the company employing them would most likely just say “well, we told them to buy hard-hats and they didn’t, so it’s not our problem”

That’s pretty common.

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