28th January 2008, 6:47 PM
Because time spent doing a job correctly is time not wasted doing a bad job, having people get killed, paying the money to the family due to that, and hiring a new inexperienced worker from scratch. So even if you are heartless enough to ignore the moral issue it would seem it is still in your best interests to train rig workers formally before they get on the job. One thing's for sure. A 30 second ad isn't going to be sufficient to prevent these things.
"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)