Quote Originally Posted by Trigger View Post
Article suggests on average 12 workers have died a week there. I get health and safety isn't as stringent but that seems extraordinarily high. You would think they were building pyramids.

Continues to show up what an awful decision it was to award to a country with no footballing infrastructure who have to build everything up in the soaring heat double quick.

Imagine all teams just pull out and go and play an unofficial tournament somewhere. Let fifa crown Qatar world champs or whatever.
That figure is difficult to get your head around, isn't it? You just picture in your mind's eye the makeshift coffins leaving the various sites every week. How could such a thing, in an oil-rich country, that has money to throw at any project, allow that to continue?
The Qatar government and FIFA have come under constant criticism almost from the start of the building project about workers' working and living conditions and yet it still carries on!

I worked on the Heathrow T5 project back in 2002 - 2005. It was the biggest construction project in Europe at the time (5.5 Billion). We had a safety campaign to aim for 'Zero Lost Hours'. Sadly, we lost a worker on the main site. We were all sent home that day and had a meeting the next day before work resumed. Management were genuinely distraught at the single workers' loss of life, as we all were.