Reply #22: There are regulations, of course [View All]

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But there are three issues, detection of violations, issuance of violations notices and fines, and correcting regulations to strengthen the system if the previous detections and violation notices/fines did not achieve the desired results. This was the case in the mine incident (I would not call it an accident), and previous disasters such as the Texas City explosion.

I am very familiar with this subject matter, and in general the safety record within private industry is much better than in nationalized industry.

Let me give you an example of a nationalized industry with a very poor safety record:

The US NASA's Space Shuttle system. It has a tendency to explode. If we look at the original design, it's very flawed. So they put in place safeguards which in hindsight have been futile, could not avoid the loss of two orbiters.