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.
Bad employer.. They all know that kind of Window is killer..why they forced their helper to clean with out safety drail…
As you can see closely, there are two pictures, the same woman in different anlge. Take a closer look.
from your 1st picture, it was clear that there are 2 persons cleaning the window..
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
OMG! No even a secure belt?
You guys has to refuse doing this!
money is nothing if your dead!
Ows!!!! Better to be terminated than to force myself cleaning on it.. We only live at once !!!!
Oh my its very dangerous
hala!!!grabe oi…katakot…
nku po ayaw ko nga mglinis ng gnyan .terminate nya n lng ako ..ayaw ko.xa sundin …
juskolord……. #4,310 will not catch you there pag nahulog ka ate….oh my God mga employers alam nila na bawal yan.
halla! d mn lang ntakot.
Omg kapitbahay namin ang building na yan..sana di na xa paglinisin sa bintana..
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Kakaloka….. so scary… ingat poh lagj
Omg
Fishtea !risk your life for just $4310 oh come’n leave that house my dear
Hayssss gravity!
Ang taas nyan josmiyo
Kaloka.kakatakot kaya…juskolord..take care of her
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