Fireworks factories review

E. Azzopardi

Sep 8th 2010, 09:05

Prosit! This is after six others exploded this year alone. What do we need to wake up and do something? I have come to the conclusion that, at the moment, there is nobody with management skills who can really manage these islands. If there were, what has been happening ( and not only with fireworks but with a lot of other things, such as traffic accidents, councils, etc etc) would, at least, have been minimised. But everything is happening in big doses!! Can't somebody put some brakes on the bad things that is happening to these islands?

gcForte

Sep 8th 2010, 08:05

Dan il bord huwa paravendu, biex taparsi qeghed issir xi haga. Qatt ma nistaw inkunu nafu fic cert ta seta gara. L-iskuza li iktar imutu b`accidenti tat traffiku ma tregghiex, ghax ghal ta l`anqas insibu raguni ta x`gara. Sa issa qatt ma sirna nafu ezatt x`gara fl`ebda kamra li taret, ghax hija ovvja. ......Il kumment ta Christian Sciberras fih x`tghomod, hafna.

John F. GALEA - San Gwann

Sep 7th 2010, 17:01

Please allow me to air my views on the workings of fireworks factories on the Maltese islands. I am no expert in fireworks at all.With the recent numerous accidents resulting in a number of fatalities the authorities shoiuld be deeply concerned abut the safety of said factories and the handling of explosives.
I am of the considered opinion that it is high time that government should enforce that only one state of the art firewrks factrory be operative under very strict twentyfour close monitoring and surveillance. Explosive imported is o be thoroughly examined and approved, handled only by well trained and duly certified personnel who are fully conscious of and should adhere and abide by international rules and regulations pertaining to such onus. An immediate proihibition of all work by dilletanti should be enforced forthwith.
We are witnessing frequent tragic explosioins. Besides, each time, our already overburdened police force is being stretched to the limit. This also applies to our health personnel and other paraphernalia. Such accidents bring about a heavy burden and drain on social security payments.
I do earnestly appeal to our parliamentarians and also to the church authorities to immediately delve into this unfortunate recurring problem

Rio Sammut

Sep 7th 2010, 14:37

Fireworks are are awesome to behold. Yet they are costing us an immense fortune in lives, money, and sound and chemical polution. No one seems to realise that smoke from fireworks is a thousand times more toxic than car exhaust! Besides they only last for a few fleeting seconds.

Fireworks must be cut down to a minimum and be manufactured at one central and safe point only.

albert leone ganado

Sep 7th 2010, 13:32

I feel that initially the board of enquiry has only one main recommendation to make namely that fireworks must achieve the CE marking standard the process for which is described in the EU "Id-Direttiva tal-Kunsill 93/15/KEE" which of course is available in Maltese.( I doubt how many factory owners have perused it). Reading through it and various national pyrotechnics act which have been based on it one sees how far we are from EU conformance. As was insisted by the EU in other areas and to the great credit of our maltese producers we have managed to achieve conformance such as in the food and animal husbandry industry the same transformation must happen urgently in the fireworks industry.
So let us seek help from the EU in achieving CE mark standards and not allow any production of fireworks until this mark is achieved. Even if we do not care a hoot about the health and safety of Maltese citizens the EU should be concerned because due to our disregard of these health and safety standards we are taking an unfair advantage over other manufacturers.

Christopher Wisbey

Sep 7th 2010, 13:20

This is surely welcomed, but overdue. Enquiries have been held before but what lessons having been learned have been acted on? Overall Health and Safety should be enforced. Your lovely Islands will be completely destroyed at the current rate of these "mishaps"; those dead are a too big a cost for the cheer these fireworks displays give.

Christian Sciberras

Sep 7th 2010, 11:08

Which documents?