"No progress on migrant safety"

Among the victims of the Aricell disaster, a significant number were foreign migrant workers.

The issues of safety and treatment for migrant workers have been clearly highlighted, but has the reality changed at all a year after the disaster?...

Migrant worker...worked in a factory handling chemical substances.

At the end of last year, he suffered an accident where toxic chemicals entered his eyes and was recognized as an industrial accident.

The factory claims that they handled the accident according to procedures and provided safety training, stating that there are no issues.

However, the injured migrant worker has a different perspective...

..."Every time an accident happens, they (provide safety training) and then after 1 or 2 weeks, they just get a signature saying that training was received."

Another migrant worker...had his wrist severed while working in a meat processing plant.

He even complained that there was no formal safety training at all...

..."The manager says that using tools slows down the work speed. In the two years I've worked, I've never received safety training."

In the past three years, less than one in ten migrant workers have received government-sponsored safety training after entering the country...