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Electronics production in Batam, Indonesia: “OSH is the most important. If we are sick we cannot earn our salaries.”
Posted by The Pump Handle on October 29, 2010
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by Elizabeth Grossman Batam, one of Indonesia’s Riau Islands, sits across the smog-choked strait from Singapore, just one degree north of the equator. On October 21 and 22, the days that I’m there, newspaper headlines announce that Singapore is experiencing its worst air pollution since 2006 due to fires, most likely from illegal forest clearing…