Mohamed Rahman
 President of the Shipbreakers Association of Bangladesh
 All the world has left the job, now only four five countries do the job. If we don't break up these ships, where will you go with these ships. It's a hazard for you also. We are not only breaking the ships, we are saving you. Taking these old ships. What you do with these big ships ... If you consider the global village context, then we are doing a very big job. Otherwise like the Titanic, [they would] have to sink all the ships to the ocean floor.

Paul Bailey
 Although the problem might look to be insurmountable, there are a number of practical measures which can be taken. For example, provision of training for the workers, identification of hazards, equipment such as goggles, helmets, gloves, and training them to recognise hazards and providing them with hygienic facilities in their rest places, so that are able to recognise hazards later and of course the question is workers alone will not be able to solve the problem. We need a global partnership of the shipowners, the shipbuilders, the wreckers, employers, trade unions and of course government inspectors who will see that these standards are enforced.

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Narrator:
 In the end more ships will mean more shipbreakers. Meeting this challenge will be a major test for the globalisation of decent work.

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