Sanitation workers should be respected as much as doctors…
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Sanitation workers should be respected as much as doctors and nurses.
Sanitation workers are, at best, ignored by most of society, and at worst, demeaned and used as a ‘bad example’ for children. People say things like, “make sure to study or you’ll end up as a garbage man” or “he’s just a janitor”.
On the other hand, doctors and nurses are often praised as heroes that save lives. And rightly so, they do save many lives. However, I would argue that sanitation workers save even more lives.
When sanitation workers take away and safely dispose of trash, or clean a grimy counter that people would eat on, or stop sewers from overflowing, they’re preventing outbreaks of disease. It’s not widely recognized because we don’t see their work as much as we see healthcare worker’s work. Sanitation workers are the ‘invisible backbone’ of a healthy society.
Think about it, without them, we would have trash everywhere, all our food would be contaminated, and there would be human waste in all our waterways. Within months, tens of millions of people would have caught diseases like cholera. There would be too many sick people for healthcare workers to treat them all.
And there’s a lot of skill that goes into sanitation work too. Working in small, dark, wet places, operating heavy machinery, and dealing with the risk of catching a disease are all parts of their job.
So, next time you see a sanitation worker, don’t treat them like a bad example, treat them the same way you would treat a doctor or nurse: with respect for the lives they are saving.
#conversation
Sanitation workers are, at best, ignored by most of society, and at worst, demeaned and used as a ‘bad example’ for children. People say things like, “make sure to study or you’ll end up as a garbage man” or “he’s just a janitor”.
On the other hand, doctors and nurses are often praised as heroes that save lives. And rightly so, they do save many lives. However, I would argue that sanitation workers save even more lives.
When sanitation workers take away and safely dispose of trash, or clean a grimy counter that people would eat on, or stop sewers from overflowing, they’re preventing outbreaks of disease. It’s not widely recognized because we don’t see their work as much as we see healthcare worker’s work. Sanitation workers are the ‘invisible backbone’ of a healthy society.
Think about it, without them, we would have trash everywhere, all our food would be contaminated, and there would be human waste in all our waterways. Within months, tens of millions of people would have caught diseases like cholera. There would be too many sick people for healthcare workers to treat them all.
And there’s a lot of skill that goes into sanitation work too. Working in small, dark, wet places, operating heavy machinery, and dealing with the risk of catching a disease are all parts of their job.
So, next time you see a sanitation worker, don’t treat them like a bad example, treat them the same way you would treat a doctor or nurse: with respect for the lives they are saving.
#conversation
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