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Why should we let the government mandate what we do with our own safety? I'm glad that the US is trending towards small government and fewer regulations, this i

• krisoft 4y ago
  > Why should we let the government mandate what we do with our own safety? You do whatever you want to do with your own safety. Feel free to protect yourself anyway you like or don’t like while you are working on your own. Nobody is going to stop you. Grab a sledgehammer and start “remodelling” your kitchen naked if you want. Stick your wet fingers into live voltage or weld with a safety squint. Nobody offical is going to show up to stop you. Not in the USA, not in the EU. The regulations are there to make sure the tradespeople you might hire get reasonable protections. That people employed can expect to go home healthy and safe at the end of their workday. Also on the flip side if you ever get hired to do some honest work you won’t get maimed because your employer choose to skimp on your protection to have more money they can spend on a marble kitchen countertop.
• orwin 4y ago
  My father could wear whatever he wanted most of his woodworker/painter career, as he was a solo artisan. But when he worked at a carpenter company, the company had to give him ffp2 masks, pay him security shoes, a hard hat and leather gloves for him to work onsite. I mean, any decent company should do that for their workers, and maybe they would've without regulations, but do you expect companies to always do the decent thing?