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[milkman636]

Worker / operator safety in much of Asia and the MidEast is non exsistent to dismal.

I was at my ancestral village and saw farmers spraying Commerical Roundup from a backpak mounted metal pump sprayer with no googles or face mask and wearing just shorts or a sarong. It's been in the news that many rural folk are suffering kidney failure and other ailements from exposure to dangerous levels of pesticide.

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Hopefully there will be improvement soon. The US has really only been safety conscious the last 40-50 years. Our equipment made in the early 1970's had none of the modern safety features either. Worker safety really didn't take off too much before then either. I used to work with old pipefitters here that talked about mixing up asbestos in tubs like redi-mix concrete to insulate pipes. A lot of them ended up with mesothelioma and lung cancer. I have to believe that in this information age some of the affected people will gradually become more informed about the hazards of what they are doing.