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And on another topic... Labor Regulation in Farms... Safety... Read and reflect ? - cbelt3 - 10-29-2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/us/on-us-farms-deaths-in-silos-persist.html?hp&_r=0
(NY Times... paywall suspended during the Hurricane)
Synopsis: The article is a very thorough review of some specific accidents and the (over) reaction by DOL to restrict youths from performing dangerous tasks on family farms. And how the farmers and the youth's parents react.
What do you think ? Balancing safety, rules, and the ability to survive economically ?
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Don't start on the 'It's all agribusiness' meme. There *are* family farms. I've worked on several of them, and I know people who encourage their teenagers to also work on them. They exist. That is the specific purview of the article.
What brings this closer to home is that I *have* walked corn in a silo. In the 1970's. And did receive a thorough safety briefing from the farmer (college roomate's dad), safety equipment (respirator, fall belt, rope sling), and watched the lockout procedure of all power equipment. So the accidents noted in the article are definitely a case of cluelessness by the farmer and lack of information on the part of the children injured or killed.
Of course the farmer in question was also a professional engineer and retired naval flight instructor at Miramar, so maybe I got lucky.
Re: And on another topic... Labor Regulation in Farms... Safety... Read and reflect ? - Pam - 10-29-2012
Again?? We went through this before. The rules do not affect the children of farmers. Search this forum. Long thread. My guess is Romney's people are trying to drag out everything.
Re: And on another topic... Labor Regulation in Farms... Safety... Read and reflect ? - $tevie - 10-29-2012
Read the article again, cbelt. The word "commercial" seems to have eluded you in the first reading.
Re: And on another topic... Labor Regulation in Farms... Safety... Read and reflect ? - cbelt3 - 10-30-2012
The words did not elude me. Read the discussion of the original proposal in the article. That was the concept I was talking about.