Free The Map Part 4: Kuwait Part C

Caution - this episode contains some details of suicides that happened when I worked at Amec Foster Wheeler in Kuwait. If you need it, these are helplines you can call for the top 5 most popular countries for this newsletter:

1. USA: 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

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4. Australia: 1300 22 4636 for Beyond Blue.

5. India: 9820466726 for Aasra.

This continues the autobiographical track with the 3rd episode on Amec Foster Wheeler serving Kuwait Oil Company and their failure to discipline NBTC Group, a manpower company with a shocking disregard for the value of human life.

Here we look at a missed opportunity to avoid the death of 49 people in an NBTC accommodation fire last year in Mangaf, Kuwait. The missed opportunity was in the firing of an NBTC worker in 2017 for calling an ambulance in response to an H2S gas poisoning at GC-30 in the North Kuwait Asset. Instead, he could have been listened to for stating that people are punished for speaking up about safety issues. NBTC, Amec Foster Wheeler, Petrofac and the Kuwait Oil Company could then have changed their safety practices. One is invited to wonder if the building fire killing 49 people 7 years later in 2024 would not have occurred if this change had happened.

We will have one more episode on Kuwait, then move on to Qatar and London, UK.