Pictures showing a woman cleaning windows from the outside at a multi-storey residential building in Hong Kong have gone viral on social media after new regulations forbidding the practice were introduced earlier this year.
Pictures uploaded by a Facebook user on Sunday morning show a woman seen standing outside the windows of an apartment in Celestial Heights in Ho Man Tin in Kowloon. The woman is clearly engaged in cleaning the windows.
The Facebook user indicated that she could not see clearly whether the woman had a safety belt. It was difficult to identify whether the woman was a domestic worker or not.
Others commented that it was dangerous for any person to clean external windows without having received proper training. They said the apartment owner should hire professionals to do the job.
Over the past five years, there have been five cases of foreign domestic workers falling to their deaths while cleaning windows. On August 9 last year, a 35-year-old Filipino maid fell from an apartment on the 49th floor in Lohas Park in Tseung Kwan O whilst doing so.
New regulations, effective from January 1 this year, stipulate that no part of a domestic worker’s body, arms excepted, must be outside of a window while it is being cleaned.
The employers should be reprimanded if they force dangerous practices. Helpers get little for what they do and making them risk their lives is unacceptable
Kaloka.kakatakot kaya…juskolord..take care of her
Ang taas nyan josmiyo
Hayssss gravity!
Fishtea !risk your life for just $4310 oh come’n leave that house my dear
Omg
Kakaloka….. so scary… ingat poh lagj
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Omg kapitbahay namin ang building na yan..sana di na xa paglinisin sa bintana..
halla! d mn lang ntakot.
juskolord……. #4,310 will not catch you there pag nahulog ka ate….oh my God mga employers alam nila na bawal yan.
nku po ayaw ko nga mglinis ng gnyan .terminate nya n lng ako ..ayaw ko.xa sundin …
hala!!!grabe oi…katakot…
Oh my its very dangerous
Ows!!!! Better to be terminated than to force myself cleaning on it.. We only live at once !!!!
OMG! No even a secure belt?
You guys has to refuse doing this!
money is nothing if your dead!
Her/His employer should know the laws that had been implemented, it is very dangerous to do such things that can cause troubles to each and everyone of them, hay! Ma fan
from your 1st picture, it was clear that there are 2 persons cleaning the window..
As you can see closely, there are two pictures, the same woman in different anlge. Take a closer look.
Bad employer.. They all know that kind of Window is killer..why they forced their helper to clean with out safety drail…
Let the employer clean that one..and if they will fall, then they should know how risk the life of their helper….quittttssss
many employer is like that mostly in mid levels,in euston court have a employer who always said clean the window if the helper argue the employer said who will do clean im your employer but that employer always say you kill me if the helper argue and remind her that is not allowed,i wish that somebody will caught and report it to police dept.
Malapit lng kmi Sa celestial heights lagi ako nakakita Ng naglilinis Sa window….Nagulat nga mga tao dahil sinabi Ko talaga malakas ang boses Ko .sabi Ko lng OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! NAKAkatakot ginawa nya..
Mary Grace Cavitana yes mam on your 2nd picture there is only 1. I am just saying that there are 2 persons cleaning the window on your 1st picture.
Report to the police right away….
Paalisin nlng ako wag ako mglinis ng window Kaya nun pnpalinis ako ng windows ni among nku Sabi q dq isugal buhay ko mahal q buhay ko..
She should tell her employer about the new law..
DBA binawal n paglilinis s bintana employer ko p ng sabi n bwal n maglinis bintana s labas ang mga kasambahay dto s HK pwd reklamo amo nya
my God. dont sacrifice yourself for the hkd 4,310 like this . take care please
Unfortunately helpers will never refused to obey the employers orders whether legal or otherwise. Will the authorities ever take action even if they are presented with solid evidence such as this?
Grabe na ito, kng magalit ang amo hayaan mo di sapat ang sahod natin na kpalit ng buhay natin. ako nga nsa 42floor kmi pg sinabi ng amo ko linisin sa loob lng madam sabi ko.
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BAWAL YAN AH
This is total BS! The employers should be fined (if not imprisoned) for this!
She has the right to complain about it,not always the employer is right and we need to follow every single minute we have the right also especially death over life
Labor Department, do something about this, asap!
you are not required to go outside that window to cleAn it…
We’re here to work for our family but not to the extent of risking our lives.Learn how to say "NO" to your boss if you know that you have the right too.
Kiddos Aaron Alessandra maybe you mistaken the object used by that woman to clean as another woman…only one person is doing the cleaning…