28th January 2008, 3:40 PM
How do you reconsile the majority of what you said with the statement "Any accidents that occur are NEVER because the worker wasn’t given the proper training."? From what you just told me, it seems clear that they DON'T get the proper training, and there's no excuse for that. Training can't be that expensive. Just spend a week in a course on how not to kill yourself, covering regulations and the specifics. Demanding that "common sense" should get the job done is an invitation to disaster.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)