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That's always the case with space industry (or even any heavy industry), no?
by yreg 3y ago
That's always the case with space industry (or even any heavy industry), no?
- mschuster91 3y agoIn Germany, workplace injuries have gone continuously down over the decades [1], and at 1,827 per 1000 workers it's significantly less than the US with 2,7 [2]. The difference is pretty certainly due to way less regulations and enforcement in the US combined with way greedier employers. [1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/6051/umfrage/gemeldete-arbeitsunfaelle-in-deutschland-seit-1986/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/6051/umfrage/... [2] https://www.bls.gov/charts/injuries-and-illnesses/total-nonfatal-work-injuries-and-illnesses-by-year.htm https://www.bls.gov/charts/injuries-and-illnesses/total-nonf...
- yetihehe 3y agoFor US readers - replace comma with dot, Germans (and most other europeans) use floats with comma.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoWe also call a BigMac a Royale with Cheese.
- mschuster91 3y agoMcDonalds offers the BigMac just the same as in the US, the Royale is a different burger
- KineticLensman 3y ago> In Germany, workplace injuries have gone continuously In the UK our safety films just had John Cleese standing on a swivel chair. But the Germans had Forklift Driver Klaus [0], which is much more compelling: "Cruel but informative accidents happen". Never have I seen a forklift and a chainsaw cause so much carnage. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_–_The_First_Day_on_the_Job https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_–_The_Fi...
- baz00 3y agoI can't watch that unfortunately but I know someone who should have. I worked at a shitty hardware store when I was a student and someone got an air conditioner dropped on them off a forklift palette. It wasn't secured to it. Poor guy lost his left leg just above the knee.
- rsynnott 3y agoNot sure about that; the UK has some truly nightmarish safety PSAs in the 70s and 80s, though they were mostly aimed at children, I suppose.
- yreg 3y agoSo in Germany, 1.827 per 1000 die, but it is a sacrifice we are willing to make.
- mschuster91 3y agoThat's the total injury rate, and both the national and European governments as well as unions are doing their best to get that number to close to 0 as possible.
- yreg 3y agoOk, my point is the amount of deaths is nonzero and it is a sacrifice even European governments and unions are willing to make. We should do our best to reduce that number, but I consider the original quote nonsense. We haven't closed down all factories even though people sometimes die in factories. It is a sacrifice we are willing to make, even though we try to mitigate it as much as possible.