Hi Mohammed

Whilst recognising that you may have been asked to look at emergency preparedness, I think that perhaps you should consider how to communicate with the multinational workforce on a broader level - perhaps not even restricted to Health and Safety etc.

Arguably the H&S is actually easier than other aspects of how the project is managed as there are international norms for pictorial information on e.g. emergency escape signage.

So if the site manager wants 4 carpenters in Zone A and 3 welders in Zone B and so on, how do they go about communicating this and telling the carpenters what is to be done?

Firesafety I've had this battle in our factory with our operational management team on this subject. Someone once even had the cheek to call me racist for bringing up my worries and concerns, that not only do we struggle to complete any basic training, but how are they expected to do the job properly regardless of health and safety?

I watched a site manager ask a supervisor to get an English-speaking foreign national to translate a simple task. Talk about Chinese whispers? how do you know the information you've just passed on is going to be relayed back to the other staff accurately, without it being simplified, or even being passed on at all?

Edited by user 05 May 2025 14:03:01(UTC)  | Reason: Spelling