While fires and industrial accidents are, fortunately, only occasional and extraordinary events, their effects are immediate and visible and forced upon our minds. But the common, everyday incidents of industrial life, the lack of ventilation, the long hours amid unsanitary surroundings, the failure to give notice to employees of the dangers of their occupations and how to avoid them, these work unnoticed, but the toll of human life and health they extract is very great indeed. There are those among us who still do not understand the suffering and toils that dedicated Trade Union activists endured to achieve the laws which govern us today. There are lobbies constantly working to convince Governments that the laws that protect working men and women are too restrictive and detrimental to the business community. In an ironic way, that would be a fair assumption.
All comments welcome.