Curated. There’s much to love in this post. It’s a killer example of the role incentives play that hits home even when you know many others. It’s a surprise to hear the cause of change. And it’s fascinating to learn how indifferent workers are to own safety; but hearing, I suppose it’s not so different from how people are indifferent to their mortality now.
Not surprised at all. My father is a roofer and mostly works with African immigrants, and to hear him tell it, the biggest difficulty regarding workplace safety is getting them to wear the damn protective gear (mostly hard hats and gloves), for the reasons outlined in the article.
(From what I’ve heard from journal articles and the like, the other big problem in the sector is that they’ll hire a lot of undocumented immigrants who lie about how qualified they are to get the job; which is another version of the same “workers will break all the safety rules written to protect them if the economic pressure is strong enough” issue.)
Curated. There’s much to love in this post. It’s a killer example of the role incentives play that hits home even when you know many others. It’s a surprise to hear the cause of change. And it’s fascinating to learn how indifferent workers are to own safety; but hearing, I suppose it’s not so different from how people are indifferent to their mortality now.
Not surprised at all. My father is a roofer and mostly works with African immigrants, and to hear him tell it, the biggest difficulty regarding workplace safety is getting them to wear the damn protective gear (mostly hard hats and gloves), for the reasons outlined in the article.
(From what I’ve heard from journal articles and the like, the other big problem in the sector is that they’ll hire a lot of undocumented immigrants who lie about how qualified they are to get the job; which is another version of the same “workers will break all the safety rules written to protect them if the economic pressure is strong enough” issue.)