"A lot of people will throw things out of the car and we have to go and sweep. For them, what is thrown away is rubbish, but for sanitation workers, what is lost is probably life."

———Sanitation workers Wang Aiqin (a pseudonym)

Recently, some netizens have sunk photos of three sanitation workers wearing hard hats and rubbing garbage in the middle of the street, causing many netizens to pay attention. Is it sad or sad, or is it a wry smile? How many people see a little self-reflection after seeing the map?

"Fully armed" for safety

In a local forum, a post titled "Please don't litter your car out of the window." The landlord “harvest small stack” said, “On the way to work these days, I can always see some sanitation workers wearing safety helmets and holding pliers in the traffic stream to pick up trash that is arbitrarily discarded from the windows.” The landlord affixed three photos taken on January 14th and asked, “Do you have thrown these garbage?”

The netizen “xiariqing” replied: “Think about how I used to have this kind of behavior before, hey! After resolutely correcting, I read the news a few days ago that I killed 3 cleaners in 12 days and I really thought I shouldn’t.” Netizens also have The replies indicate the determination to protect the environment.

The netizen “suddenly meets 221” and believes: “Also, working on the street, the motor vehicle driver sees that the traffic police will generally slow down the communion, and the sanitation workers cannot enjoy this treatment because they do not have the 'road right' specified by law.”

11 work-related accidents and 32 accidental accidents in a year

The car is speeding, changing lanes frequently, and many sanitation workers walk through the traffic stream. Inadvertently, accidents may occur. For example, on August 22, 2013, at the intersection of Shuanglong North Street and Laodong Road in the urban area, the sanitation worker Hua Yuexue was hit by a concussion in the car that was later driven by a white plastic bag thrown out of a window. After more than five months passed, Hua Yuexue has not recovered and is still recuperating at home.

Yesterday, the reporter learned from the Sanitation Department of Jinhua City that in 2013 alone, there were 11 confirmed work-related accidents and 32 accidental accidents involving sanitation workers recorded on the case. Car accident injuries have become the greatest threat to sanitation workers.

Wang Aiqin, who lives in Jiangdong Town, Jindong District, is 56 years old. Yesterday morning, she cleaned the road at Li Yulu Wanda Plaza. Wang Aiqin has been engaged in urban sanitation work for 5 years. From 6 am to 10 am and from 1 pm to 5 pm, she comes back and forth eight hours a day. She is familiar with this road section.

“We only need to be responsible for the rubbish on the non-motorized lanes and the separation belt, but there is still no time for it to be empty.” Wang Aiqin said, especially the east end of the Liyu Bridge. It was rubbish all over the place just after the sweep. “This section of the road is relatively wide, and in recent years the traffic is getting bigger and faster, and the speed is faster. People often sit in the car and throw out the garbage. The wind blows everywhere.” Wang Aiqin also used to have rubbish. When it was hit by a motorcycle.

60% of respondents stated that they had thrown trash, and 80% wished to “correct”

In order to understand the public’s view of “disposing of garbage outside the vehicle”, the newspaper conducted surveys through local surveys and online surveys in local forums such as the streets of the city and Jinhua News and other local forums. A total of 730 valid questionnaires were retrieved. Age level. 21 to 40 years of age account for more than 80%, and 41 to 60 years of age account for about 10%.

In the questionnaire, when asked “whether or not litter had been thrown out of the window during driving (by car)”, 34.25% of respondents said “never”, 65.75% of respondents said “have thrown” Among them, 61.64% said that because “things were not recognized in the hand and were thrown away”, 12.33% said that “the car is its own, thrown out relatively clean, and the road dirty has nothing to do with me”.

In addition, 93.15% of the respondents stated that they had seen sanitation workers pick up rubbish on the road; 86.3% of people said that they saw this scene “very sadly. If they had thrown rubbish, they would feel embarrassed. They will certainly notice later. Not throwing litter, "only 10.96% of people said "no feeling, this is their job."

Around 9 o'clock yesterday morning, the reporter was detained at Li Yu Dong Road. After the peak hours of work, the number of passing vehicles decreased slightly. The road was clean and tidy, but someone was throwing trash out of the window from time to time. A man threw a food bag on the road as soon as he closed the door. A driver threw the bottle of mineral water in his hand into the bushes. At this time, a sanitation worker was picking up the rubbish inside the central isolation green belt, and just behind a signal light junction ten meters away from him, there were people in the driveway. There are small ads inside. Some drivers ignored it. Someone threw the advertisements out of the car and the vehicle passed. The ground was a mess.

To protect their safety, you and I should do our part

In order to protect the personal safety of the front-line workers, the Municipal Sanitation Department organizes more than ten safety trainings each year. In addition, the Department of Environmental Protection has also purchased a “group accident insurance” to further protect the safety of workers’ personal and property, and to avoid the loss of workers due to work injuries.

However, in order to maintain cleanliness, most of the sanitation workers can only stay on the roadside, see throwing and squatting, let the motor vehicles from passing around, plus the illegal vehicles that appear from time to time, the chance of a traffic accident has greatly increased.

“The sanitation workers may be focused on work and do not pay attention to the surrounding environment, but it is mainly due to the driver’s lack of concentration, poor observation, fatigued driving and accidents caused by wrong operations.”

“Peace is on the line” is not only the code of sanitation workers in their daily work, but also our responsibility in our hands.

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