Typhoon Season 2013

[INXS]

[Watercooler]

Any updates on this storm track?

[MovingIn07]

Apparently folks in the Philippines have been sent home because of a typhoon today. Is that heading our way after Manila?

[auss]

Apparently folks in the Philippines have been sent home because of a typhoon today. Is that heading our way after Manila?

According to the track its heading in the direction of Japan will do a 180 turn pass by Tiawan and will then head inland towards eastern coast of china not that close to Hong Kong.

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[Watercooler]

The typhoon work cancellation system does seem a hangover from the times before a
lot of safety measures - like concreting slopes and improving drainage and runoff - were completed. Plenty of other cities manage to get to work safely in typhoons, and plenty of people in HK manage it too.

Well don't hold your breath for any substantial changes. So long as employers are held liable for the injuries sustain by their employees at work (or on the way to work) during a T8 (or higher) signal, things will remain as they are.

[Raccon]

Well don't hold your breath for any substantial changes. So long as employers are held liable for the injuries sustain by their employees at work (or on the way to work) during a T8 (or higher) signal, things will remain as they are.

Better safe than sorry me thinks, after all flying debris and floodings can kill.

[TheBrit]

Well don't hold your breath for any substantial changes. So long as employers are held liable for the injuries sustain by their employees at work (or on the way to work) during a T8 (or higher) signal, things will remain as they are.

Insurance will cover that, and the overall cost to HK plc is tiny. How many people are injured in typhoons here - a very small number and the economic cost of closing down HK far exceeds a few minor personal injury claims. The bus network and MTR keep running in typhoons - they would not do so if it were unsafe for travel.

[INXS]

Insurance will cover that, and the overall cost to HK plc is tiny. How many people are injured in typhoons here - a very small number and the economic cost of closing down HK far exceeds a few minor personal injury claims. The bus network and MTR keep running in typhoons - they would not do so if it were unsafe for travel.

Have you considered that there are few injuries because of the warning system?

[TheBrit]

Have you considered that there are few injuries because of the warning system?

It is possible, but I think unlikely - based on my experiences living in Tokyo. No mandatory day off work there when typhoons strike and the transport infrastructure there is similar to here. Tens of thousands commute just fine during HK typhoons too. They are not dying or being injured in their droves.

[Watercooler]

It is possible, but I think unlikely - based on my experiences living in Tokyo. No mandatory day off work there when typhoons strike and the transport infrastructure there is similar to here. Tens of thousands commute just fine during HK typhoons too. They are not dying or being injured in their droves.

You are forgetting HK's media. All it takes is one or two incident of fatalities before the press scream bloody murder. It doesn't matter if that happens only once every million commute in a typhoon, what matters is that it happen for all to see. No company, or the HK government for that matter, want to be seen as cavalier towards worker safety (even if they are cavalier in reality, they need to uphold an impression).

After all, remote chance or not, a typical run-of-the-mill office job in HK, no matter how important, is not worth dying over. No one said on their death beds that:"I should have spent that extra day at the office during that typhoon XX years ago".