RANT!
it was HORRIBLE in Central today at lunchtime, over near The Gap store, there was a guy sawing stone pavers, the concrete dust in the air was disgusting... can't believe they're allowed to do that.
RANT!
it was HORRIBLE in Central today at lunchtime, over near The Gap store, there was a guy sawing stone pavers, the concrete dust in the air was disgusting... can't believe they're allowed to do that.
They are idiots, selfish and stupid here. As Thebirt mentioned, they should squirt water and so on regularly to gongeal the dust and attract it to the liquid. Really these HK workers have no care even for their own lunges or throats to breathe it in, let along their hearing as I bet they wear not any ear muffers. HK has much to learn about piolitness and consideration from Japan.
I don't think it's the workers fault. More so poor health and safety management. Not so sure about local authorities here but major contractors enforce this.
you could always report them to the EPD
Section 22 Pneumatic or power-driven drilling, cutting and polishing
Water or a dust suppression chemical shall be continuously sprayed on the surface where any pneumatic or power-driven drilling, cutting, polishing or other mechanical breaking operation that causes dust emission is carried out, unless the process is accompanied by the operation of an effective dust extraction and filtering device
They get about 6000 complaints a year on building site pollution which is a significant number of the total