Editor,While the immediate focus should be on rescuing those we can, caring for the injured as well as supporting the bereaved families and friends, we should not be blinded to the fact that these repeated construction accidents are not acts of God but caused by avoidable industrialerrors.What this fatal building accident tells us is that our construction industry’s occupational safety and health standards are either woefully inadequate or they are poorly enforced or both.Whatever the degree of each of these, it is high time the authorities cracked the whip and impose exemplary punishments on those whose lack of attention to workers’ safety in construction or any other sector continually results in loss of life or injury resulting in impaired capacity to earn a livelihood.Without such exemplary sanctions, we can be assured such tragedies will be repeated in the not too distant future. Central and local governments, our standards watchdogs and the police must take the bull by the horns and institute immediate action to stop this kind of needless carnage from being repeated over and over.Mwene Kalinda, KigaliReaction to the story, "Team formed to investigate Nyagatare building collapse”, (The New Times, May 16)