I was told that many years ago when the Post Office first installed automated package handling equipment, a maintenance guy was killed when someone turned on the equipment he was working on. The nearly-idiot-proof solution someone devised was a physical lockout system, where the maintainer puts his own padlock on the power switch or cage over the switches.
Can't believe a ship wouldn't have similar safeguards. Of course it's also hard to believe they don't have hygiene procedures that avoid "epidemics." But who would enforce these?
The beauty of flagging your ships in Panama or the Bahamas is you don't have to follow any of those pesky worker safety regulations that cramp your style.
Outside the withering gaze of the Nanny State, the Invisible Hand of the unregulated Free Market crushes an innocent elevator mechanic. He should have hired a safety engineer to check out the workplace before taking the job, like any prudent employee would do.
It is gratifying yet depressing how all these businesses that circumvent regulations to show how much we don't need them always end up proving exactly why those regulations exist. So disruptive.
Sexual assault is apparently a big problem on cruise ships too, for similar reasons, i.e., Banana republic registries and then crimes committed while in international waters, which are not enforceable by any countries' laws. Google it and there's a lot of stuff out there. I heard an NPR piece on it a while back.
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and THAT is what broke up the Beatles…
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I was told that many years ago when the Post Office first installed automated package handling equipment, a maintenance guy was killed when someone turned on the equipment he was working on. The nearly-idiot-proof solution someone devised was a physical lockout system, where the maintainer puts his own padlock on the power switch or cage over the switches.
Can't believe a ship wouldn't have similar safeguards. Of course it's also hard to believe they don't have hygiene procedures that avoid "epidemics." But who would enforce these?
The beauty of flagging your ships in Panama or the Bahamas is you don't have to follow any of those pesky worker safety regulations that cramp your style.
Outside the withering gaze of the Nanny State, the Invisible Hand of the unregulated Free Market crushes an innocent elevator mechanic. He should have hired a safety engineer to check out the workplace before taking the job, like any prudent employee would do.
It is gratifying yet depressing how all these businesses that circumvent regulations to show how much we don't need them always end up proving exactly why those regulations exist. So disruptive.
Sexual assault is apparently a big problem on cruise ships too, for similar reasons, i.e., Banana republic registries and then crimes committed while in international waters, which are not enforceable by any countries' laws. Google it and there's a lot of stuff out there. I heard an NPR piece on it a while back.