Contractors oversee workers in groups ranging in size from a dozen to many hundreds, and accompany the workers as they travel with the seasons.
As for the surveillance, Janiczak said the city had spent 340,000 forints ($1,260; 1,100 euros) on eight video cameras, including two which look like eyeglasses, not just to oversee workers but also to protect supervisors from threats and attacks.
"We do the best we can," said Kevin Beauregard, an assistant deputy OSHA commissioner in North Carolina, which is among 25 states deputized by the federal government to oversee worker safety programs.
Jeanneret lived at the construction site for more than a decade, overseeing workers and tailoring the buildings to maximize cross ventilation and provide monsoon protection.
"Children usually played soccer here," said an Iraq Red Crescent volunteer, Hussein Abbas, overseeing workers arranging the white canvas tents in the Khudra neighborhood in western Baghdad.
As he oversaw workers renovating a small Muslim prayer center in Georgetown — a job won through open tender — Ahmud Kairul Arif, 28, scorned the idea that as an ethnic Malay his business would need special help.
Although China is run by the Communist Party and has state-controlled unions, the unions are largely charged with overseeing workers, not bargaining for higher wages or pressing for improved labor conditions.
"The last three years we've seen a tremendous spike in claims, and in particular the last two," said Todd Davis, who has overseen workers' compensation for the St . LouisRams for the past 15 years.
Mr. Mulgrew, who now manages the coffin business for the Trappists, oversees workers who start at 9 30 a.m., break for prayers and dinner before noon, then return to work two hours later -- only to put down their hammers and saws for the day at 4 30.
Dutch experts oversaw workers from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic cutting up parts of the plane and using cranes to load them onto lorries.
The case is focusing attention on how the airport oversees workers.
