Read that this morning. Disgusting that the Dickensian socio-economic era continues to this day in supposed post-industrial states. **Can't we move this shite to India or some other place where brown people live**
This not due to "capitalism." This is due to poor regulatory oversight. Capitalism and strong government oversight are not mutually exclusive.
Huh, apparently anecdotal information=systemic failure. http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/os/osch0024.pdf A total of 5.2 million injuries and illnesses occurred in private industry workplaces during 2001, resulting in a rate of 5.7 cases for every 100 equivalent full-time workers. This was the lowest rate ever recorded.
That's almost four times higher than Great Britain's rate of 1.5 cases for every 100 equivalent full-timeworkers. http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overall/hssh0102.pdf
American capitalism + British capitalism - Soviet communism + Chinese communism - I don't dig orthodoxy.
As a safety professional let me tell you that the government's regulation of industry with regards to occupational safety and health is broken. OSHA has very rarely updated their chemical exposure standards. Most of the standards are still based on medical research done in the '50s. Medicine has advanced alot since that time. Also OSHA cannot level punitive fines in the vast majority of cases like the EPA can. Thus a company like McWane can have a plant that has an OSHA inspection with 150 violations some of which were serious violations and just right it off because a proper safety program is more expensive than taking a hit from OSHA every few years. OSHA needs serious reform now.