Report Shows Works Rank Workplace Safety Highest
In a report entitled, “Public Attitudes towards and Experiences with Workplace Safety” by Dr. Tom W. Smith at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago for the Public Welfare Foundation, workplace safety ranks high among public respondents to the survey. “Workplace safety has been a high priority… (O)f seven labor standards “workplace safety regulations” were ranked first in both 2008 and 2010 with 85-89% considering them to be ‘very important.’ This topped such other standards as family and maternity leave, minimum wage, paid sick days, overtime pay, maximum hours limits, and the right to join a union,” the report said at http://news.uchicago.edu/images/pdf/100827.NORC.Public_Attitudes.pdf