DEAD VS SURVIVORS
Recently l attended a training on BEHAVIROUL BASED SAFETY. In that
faculty had told that if you visit the family of any
accident victim the pain will be understood and sometimes it may change your
attitude and influence your life.
How true it is? I
want to share with you my personal experience and importance of human life and
safety and sometimes how decision of each one of us will affect the life of
others.
Some years back in one accident
one migrant worker from Orissa died in an accident at dam. I D
was one of the two entrusted with the job of disbursing money (obviously before
demonetization) to his dependents. To my utter dismay there was a pathetic
scene.
One side widow of the victim
with a two year old kid is standing and on the other side his old parents are
standing. Both were virtually fighting for the compensation money to be given
only to them not to the
other as they are having no other means to live and the other party may
not at all give anything to
them. At that time it looked as if they were not bothered about the dead person
but only interested about the money that is being disbursed. But the real point
is having lost the only bread earner they are scared about their future and
their very survival is in jeopardy. Hence they were trying to catch the last and
only hope available of compensation money. Everybody there knows that the
compensation money is just sufficient for survival only for few years. It will
neither help in educating the children nor help in meeting the medical expenses
of elders. We with the help of union leaders consoled them and disbursed the
money to both in an appropriate way and somehow managed the situation.
But that incident made me think
about the importance of life.
WHO IS MORE IMPORTANT? DEAD OR
SURVIVOR?
DID ACCIDENT KILL ONLY ONE
PERSON OR WHOLE FAMILY?
WHO IS AT FAULT? THE PERSON
CONCERNED OR THE PERSON WHO MADE HIM TO DO UNSAFE
WORK?
WHEN A FEW SECONDS THINKING
COULD HAVE AVOIDED IT WHY PEOPLE ARE IN SO HURRY?
IS FEW LAKHS LOSS OR A BAD
REMARK IS COSTLIER THAN LIFE OF WHOLE FAMILY?