Comment by junaru
2 years ago
Your comments puts cheaper kitchen tables above potential lifelong worker health issues.
No amount of 'criminal liability' will bring back loved ones.
2 years ago
Your comments puts cheaper kitchen tables above potential lifelong worker health issues.
No amount of 'criminal liability' will bring back loved ones.
Criminal liability is exactly what prevents companies from shooting unruly employees. My comment doesn’t say shit about the value of kitchen tables.
It’s a judgement about the stupid location the law was applied when it could have been applied somewhere else, achieved the same short term effect, but then would have incentivized solutions to the problem.
Nothing will bring those people back. If that’s the only goal, then banning is also frivolous.
It’s also unclear whether there is a similar safe alternative, so banning one type of product might just shift the problem to a new toxic and dangerous material.
The only solution is to enforce safety regulations and/or come up with better ones. At one time, when I decided I’d sand a wall in my house, I ended up attaching a vacuum cleaner to my sander so that the dust wouldn’t go everywhere. Wearing the filter mask was also extremely uncomfortable, so it might be worth to design better breathing PPEs that are more human-friendly to drive acceptance up.