Video from US contractor demonstrates concern for glass, not worker.
California clearly cares for its residents. The state has some of the most stringent emissions regulations in the world. It has banned smoking in public, and you can ask for “fat free sugar” to accompany your decaf coffee.
Which is why this video showing the breaking prowess of Bernardo Concrete Inc. seems strangely at odds with its native California philosophy of putting people first. For when faced with having to break a rather flimsy concrete slab immediately beside a glass and steel-fronted building, the company chose not to erect any form of safety barrier or hoarding to protect the structure from fly-rock.
Nope.
Instead, they opted for the tried-and-tested method of handing a small piece of rubber mat to a man wearing little or nothing in the way of personal protective equipment (no hard hat or safety goggles, certainly) and asking him to act as a human shield.
Will they never learn?
