Another Triumph of Safety in the Workplace

Several posts back we shared an image with you of window washers in Beijing. Well, before you get to the point of having dirty windows, you have to put up a bunch of dirt-ready structures. Parts of Beijing appear to be little more than scaffolding, cranes, and miles upon miles of green fabric. Here you can see a couple construction workers assembling some steel scaffolding. From time to time, a third worker would toss up an object for the other guys to catch. We don't know what the objects were, but we're guessing they weren't safety harnesses. Perhaps the good news is that if one guy falls, there would be a decent chance of merely impaling himself on a steel pipe instead of smacking the pavement below.

Then again, maybe it would be safer to just learn how to wash windows.