Working overseas – just how dangerous can it be?
August 5, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
For many of us, the riskiest part of our day is crossing a busy road to the office or asking for a pay rise, but for thousands of people working in dangerous or remote places, risk can involve anything from hypothermia to terrorism and even death.
What motivates them to go to such extremes in the name of work? Robert Young Pelton, a journalist and author famed for his dangerous assignments, says people who work in risky places normally do it either because they need the money or because they are simply attracted towards intense experiences.
A Forbes list of the world’s most dangerous countries published earlier this year placed Afghanistan at the top, followed by Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan and Sudan. Statistically, the most dangerous job in the US is a fisherman, with 147.2 fatalities annually per 100,000 workers, followed by pilots (90.4) and timber cutters (84.6); while the global mining, oil and gas sectors are regularly listed as health and safety black spots…
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