Sanitation Workers ' Day: The most expected gift is not litter

Yesterday was the 19th sanitation workers ' Day, in this special festival, the reporter took to the street, interviewed a number of sanitation workers, listened to their voices. Most workers said: "Do not litter, is to give us the best gift." ”

The most anticipated "gift"-

People don't litter.

Yang Suzhen, a sanitation worker in Wenchang Road, as a road cleaner, in order to pick up a cigarette butts, pick up a drink bottle, every day she had to shuttle in the traffic, she has not remember how many times with the danger of rubbing past. Zhang Juhong, the year near, in the sanitation post has been dry for 8 years, although old, still adhere to the 5 o'clock in the morning every day to reach the cleaning post. A day of work down, she often tired sweating, backache backache.

"The first time I heard that we have a section of sanitation workers, my biggest wish is that the public do not litter, which is also my most wanted holiday gift!" "Yesterday morning, in the Times South Square cleaning the road, Master Huang told reporters, the morning swept over again, the road is actually very clean, but some people put on the roadside shell box, casual paper, drink bottles and other debris thrown on the road, he had to follow the water cleaning.

Municipal Sanitation Department in charge of the city, the current way of cleaning the road, many are early on the road to sweep, and then on the road for cleaning, workers will discard the road after the garbage clean, if the public do not litter, the sanitation workers will be greatly reduced.

The most feared moment--

Picking up rubbish in speeding traffic

This month, 17th morning, Thin West Lake Road a thrilling scene: one in the fast lane garbage collection of sanitation workers, was a car crashed, the scene of rubbish everywhere, a messy, this is half a month in the second sanitation workers were hit, "Road Angel" security protection once again aroused people's attention.

Wanyang Property Road Cleaning director Lu Haijun told reporters, Thin West Lake Road has been used to clean the machine, can be road guardrail, road edge, etc. by manual cleaning, cleaning, many sanitation workers can not timely notice the surrounding danger, in order to pick up the road side of garbage, had to adventure shuttle in the motorway.

Yesterday morning, reporter in Wenchang Middle Road, Wen Nan Road, the survey found that sanitation workers in order to clean the road from the car in the disposable chopsticks, plastic bags, cigarette cigarette butts, paper towels and from the truck leaking sand and other rubbish, had to travel through the traffic, which gave their safety caused a great danger. Li Xinsheng is responsible for the cleaning of Wenchang Middle Road, in this section, the car is a constant stream, from the car thrown garbage also increased his workload, but also caused security risks. "The rubbish must be swept away in time, but not safe, we must take risks to clean it." "Li Xinsheng is very helpless.

Municipal Sanitation Department in charge of the city, a number of annual urban sanitation workers were hit by traffic accidents, some also caused the death of workers, sanitation workers safety has been their most worried about the problem. The life safety of sanitation workers is threatened, which is caused by many reasons.

Time of operation is dangerous. Causes of the frequent traffic accidents of sanitation workers, on the one hand, sanitation workers to complete the clean-up task early every morning, sanitation workers cleaning time in 4 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock this "dark before dawn", is the sanitation workers "black two hours." Early morning light dim, poor visibility, traffic on the road less, faster speed, especially in some sections of the street light is not too bright, the most prone to accidents.

Manual Cleaning method. At present, the urban fast lane has achieved mechanized cleaning, the mechanization rate reached about 80%, can be fast lane after cleaning the normal cleaning and non-motor road cleaning, cleaning still to be manually completed, front-line sanitation workers working tool is still a broom, a dustpan, a tricycle, which means that sanitation workers to long time, Frequently appearing on the road, occupational risk increases.

Drivers have a weak sense of safety. Among the traffic casualties caused by sanitation workers, some drivers have weak safety awareness, fatigue driving, fast speed, driving and other bad driving habits, which is one of the reasons for the casualties caused by sanitation workers.

The sanitation worker is old. Municipal Sanitation Department in charge of analysis, although this year, the city of sanitation workers to make a "non-aging" of the rigid requirements, the provisions of 60 years of age, female 55 years of age, no longer to do sanitation workers. But a property company in charge of Chen, in fact, many families with poor economic conditions and no other skills of the elderly, still in the dry cleaning staff. Of course, there are also some sanitation workers work, safety awareness is not enough, sometimes just blindly down the head busy sweeping the road, ignoring the vehicles around.

The last thing I want to hear-

"No littering, you're unemployed."

"If we don't litter, you'll lose your job." "What do you do?" is not to sweep the rubbish. A lot of sanitation workers say, hear such words, the heart feel most wronged.

In the Hanjiang Road cleaning Shaw elder sister to reporters, many store operators for the work of sanitation workers do not cooperate, obviously have garbage cans, but the rubbish discarded in front of the road. When they came forward to discourage, they were asked: "We have to pay the health costs, to throw it here?" Would you just sit and do nothing? "In this situation, the sanitation workers can only swallow the gas into their stomachs." Xiao elder sister told reporters, met such people and things, she had to put the bitter and dirty things when happy to do, with an inclusive heart to treat.

The most heartfelt thoughts-

The company gives us more pay.

"The 60-year-old people, out of the bitter and dirty and dangerous sanitation workers, for the children to reduce some of the burden, the most expect the company to give us a raise in wages." Yesterday afternoon, in the slow lane west of Runyang Road, the leisure property company's aunt Fan told reporters that last year, the company increased the workload of workers, she is responsible for the road cleaning, heavy workload, the toilet, water and rest time is relatively short. Work so hard still dry, for the monthly wages of more than 1400, this salary also includes the company's insurance subsidies and overtime, although wages are not high, but still have to do.

The reporter learned from the city sanitation department, November 2012, the provincial housing construction office, the provincial Union and other departments issued a joint request, "front-line sanitation workers monthly wage income shall not be lower than the local minimum wage of 110%". At present, urban sanitation workers in the average wage of about 1500 yuan a month, high has exceeded the minimum wage level of more than 110%, nearly 2000 yuan, low also in the minimum wage standards hovering up and down. Reporter Kang

Journalist Notes

Industry insiders said that the purpose of setting up a sanitation workers ' day is to let more people know about the living condition of sanitation workers. The treatment of sanitation workers is still not high, dirty and tired jobs are not to be valued and respected. These problems are not simple to set a holiday can be resolved, can only say that the sanitation workers ' Day is a good start, and attention needs more and more lasting.

If we want to ask what we should do for them, or how to express their congratulations on this special day, the most practical way is to make their work less, that is, everyone in their daily attention to detail, pick up the garbage.