Work safe practices

Living in Australia for the past 8 and a bit months made us aware of work safe practices. We saw  yellow everywhere. As we commuted around Sydney, the early morning King Gee blue had been exchanged to bright yellow. It was everywhere. Every outdoor worker seemed to display sunflower qualities.
But it didn't stop there. Job sites were radically changed as well. Witches hats, traffic controllers, closed roads, and flashing lights, all in order to to plant a tree, or so it seemed.
Work safe practices over the past three or four years has changed in Australia and it was interesting to get back into a culture we thought we knew to find that it had changed so much.
So as we headed back with a short stay in the USA we found that as we went about the place these work safe practices were left to one side. We saw teenagers with casual clothes and no signs directing traffic around a tree cutting exercise, while people flew past at around 60 kilometres an hour in an 80 zone. That was to protect the workers. It was something that struck us as we drove around that part of the US.

Coming down to Ecuador this work place safety was still on my mind. So it was with great amusement that I noticed a big pile of uncovered asbestos sheets beside the footpath. I can only imagine what those of you who dress up in white overalls to take off one square meter of asbestos are thinking. A slight difference to what I passed in the street the other day.


I'm sure that there will be many other things that will grab our attention as we try and settle to living in Loja. We have already been reminded of many things that have made us realise that we are back in Loja once again.