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Of course the employee is at fault but the employer also has a responsibility to ensure that such employees do not repeat such behaviour. I expect employers to
by kwhitefoot 3y ago
Of course the employee is at fault but the employer also has a responsibility to ensure that such employees do not repeat such behaviour. I expect employers to be aware of how well their employees do the job and to take appropriate action when the behaviour fails to meet the relevant standards.
- nikolay 3y agoWe can't put all the burden on the employer. At the end of the day, nobody could possibly care more about your health than you yourself. If people ignore risks knowingly, then it's their own personal fault. American Standard has a large factory in my homeland Bulgaria and people from my hometown commute more than an hour and such commute in Bulgaria is rare, but they do it for the good salary. Although the factory passes EU regulations, which I honestly doubt due to the huge level of corruption and widespread respiratory health issues of workers. So, everybody knows that they will get sick if they work there long enough, yet, they do it, because of the money and job security! So, sometimes, even when people know the risks, they still harm themselves for money!
- kwhitefoot 3y agoI'm pretty sure that the employer would, or at least could, be held liable here in Norway and in the UK. > So, sometimes, even when people know the risks, they still harm themselves for money! In many places this is not really a free choice because alternatives that do not harm one's health do not exist or demand qualifications that the prospective employee does not have. Requiring the employer to police this raises the standard everywhere and the employees would no longer have to make that trade off.