What Workplace Health & Safety !!

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Originally Posted by Trevor 57

thanks for your positive contribution, I am sure your children will appreciate going back to the 'good old days' with workplace safety, hell workers are just a disposable commodity anyway

Any discussion of OHS inevitably proceeds the same way discussions of unionism do. People immediately go to extremes and talk about no penalty rates, no holiday leave, no sick leave, etc. But what have unions done *positively* in the last 10-20 years, other than have a hand in killing a few local industries?

Times have changed, we've moved on. It's silly to assume we'd go back to the bad old days. I doubt there would be carnage in the workplace if we simply required a little more personal responsibility of people. People ultimately want to make it home alive, and those who do take unnecessary risks do so regardless of what rules are in place.

In a global economy, we have a global workplace, and if we blindly increase regulation for the hell of it, we just send more and more jobs OS to those with more lax regulation. We need some middle ground.

Right now, we're being asked to buy into the lie that more bureaucracy translates into better quality. It frequently does not.