You implicitly lay responsibility on the worker first, then on the employer, then on the customer.
Perhaps if the order of responsibility were reversed, it would lead to better outcomes.
Perhaps if the order of responsibility were reversed, it would lead to better outcomes.
The only feasible order is government, employer, then worker. The government is tasked with the making the rules and surprise inspections, and the rest follows from there.
Is it dusty? Wear a mask.
Is it loud? Hearing protection.
And everyone should wear shoes with steel caps.
If you see someone with a bandana over their mouth in sandals you know they are unsafe. They know it too. This is not something that is difficult to understand.
Who polices the customer? The logistics of making everyone a cop make no sense to me.
If you see your contractor not using PPE, you just tell them to put it on. Just like you'd tell him to do it properly if you saw him cutting corners somewhere else.
Contractors want to get paid, so they generally tend to do what the person paying the bill asks them to do.