SINGAPORE - A plan by a company to have physical partitions installed in the back of a lorry, so that safe distancing can be ensured while workers are transported during the Covid-19 outbreak, has been given a no-go by the authorities, after a video of the vehicle made the rounds online.
However, some said the partitions were a cost effective way for the company to continue transporting its employees. "MOM and LTA have collectively assessed that any sudden movement while travelling on the roads might dislodge the partitions and endanger occupants as well as other road users," the authorities said.Shin Khai Construction on Thursday acknowledged in a Facebook post the concerns from netizens and apologised over the matter.
Shin Khai Construction said it was advised to carry out more trips to ferry its workers if the need arose. When contacted, Shin Khai Construction clarified that there was no incident that resulted from the lorry partition arrangement, as it was an internal prototype that it was working on due to the coronavirus situation.
Get a 56 seater bus and carry 14 of them. No chance of getting any moving fixtures on lorries approved. Risk of the partitions getting dislodged. Too dangerous for the passengers and other vehicles. Lorries are just not going to make the cut.
then when they work in confned space, how to keep distance when they have to squeeze between construction steel on site
I have always felt that it is very unsafe to ferry workers in lorries.I have always thot ferrying workers in buses should be the way but I also understand the costs involved. Maybe now because of Covid19, ferrying workers by bus may be the new 'norm'.