What is your opinion? Two safety and health students are debating the issue of corporate responsibility. Ken thinks that industry has clearly demonstrated its unwillingness over the years to provide a safe and healthy work environment for employees. He offers such examples as the Gauley Bridge disaster and the Bhopal gas tragedy as evidence. Janny agrees that industry indeed has a checkered past on safety and health, but she thinks employers have learned that their workforce is a valuable asset that should be protected. Tom's response is, "Take away federal and state mandates, and industry would return to its old ways in less that a year," Join this debate. What is your opinion?   2   What is your opinion? Mack Jones has been a safety engineer at Zumwalt Processing Company for almost 25 years. His son David is a recent college graduate who has been the assistant safety director at another company for just six months. Over supper last night, they had a discussion about work injuries. During the discussion, Jack said he thought back injuries were still the problem that safety professionals should worry about the most. David disagreed. He said repetitive strain/soft tissue injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome were a bigger problem in the modern computerized workplace. What is your opinion?

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1 What is your opinion?

Two safety and health students are debating the issue of corporate responsibility. Ken thinks that industry has clearly demonstrated its unwillingness over the years to provide a safe and healthy work environment for employees. He offers such examples as the Gauley Bridge disaster and the Bhopal gas tragedy as evidence. Janny agrees that industry indeed has a checkered past on safety and health, but she thinks employers have learned that their workforce is a valuable asset that should be protected. Tom's response is, "Take away federal and state mandates, and industry would return to its old ways in less that a year," Join this debate. What is your opinion?

 

2   What is your opinion?

Mack Jones has been a safety engineer at Zumwalt Processing Company for almost 25 years. His son David is a recent college graduate who has been the assistant safety director at another company for just six months. Over supper last night, they had a discussion about work injuries. During the discussion, Jack said he thought back injuries were still the problem that safety professionals should worry about the most. David disagreed. He said repetitive strain/soft tissue injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome were a bigger problem in the modern computerized workplace. What is your opinion?

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