Let be frank here, all jobs have their hazards, this one I
repeated many times, in my marine line, i see many accident and
deaths, drowning and falls, in my casket lines, seen many
construction death, this year, three months alone, already 11
death from both marine and construction site.
I am not saying that we are better off, but rather that we, as
Taxis driver or coming into taxi driving trade, should have or had
known of such hazard exist, and we still ply the road and do our
business, as a marine contractor, I know going into a ship engine
room or cargo hold is going to be dangerous, but I still have to go
up and do the job, because that is what I choose to be for a
living.
And of course we can curse and swear at the govt, police and
taxis company for not providing better security for us, or that I
can fark the chief engineer, the ship management for not taking
care of the safety procedure after so much death. But then to what
extend these farker care and take is one issue, we can only keep
pressuring them.
The real issue is we, we are the front warrior facing the music,
therefore, in a proactive ways, we should be more careful with
better instinct (especially for those driving at nite) to identify
the place and the people to take or not to take, this I believe is
more critical.
In Yard, we use to identify safety hazard, like protruting metal
pieces, lighters, unlicenced or not updated equipment, competency
of worker handling and so on...
So perhap in Taxi driving, we should priortise our hazards,
Like
1. Pax..how do we know it is a bad pax from a general view, or
that someone look like hammer, please dun take..
2. TP, LTA officers, the one that is alway a pain in the ass
3. Unsafe road
4. location of pick up
5. Pattern of journey
6. Pax state of mind
and so on.
With it, we can at least avoid some of the unpleasant situation
that alway end up, TD the victim of the assault.
