Far east countries do seem to be going through the same events that lead to the migration of the Department of Labor from statistical institution to enforcement

Far east countries do seem to be going through the same events that lead to the migration of the Department of Labor from statistical institution to enforcement institution. The have similar weak laws like the Working Condition Service act that really do little to force change, but begin to change the mindset of workers. This beginning change of mindset will force real workplace safety regulation in the future, but even in the US it took over 40 years and was mostly because of a side effect from a shipping regulation change that expanded the scope of the DOL to enforce safety requirements on merchant ships. This small change was used as precedence for real regulation in 1970 with OSHA, which was very necessary, with numbers of workplace deaths in the near 15,000. It will take time for the public will to be great enough to force real change, and it is hard regardless of your buying power to change cultural practices.