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In the United States, the Occupational Safety and Health Administratio
n (OSHA) was created to enhance safety in the workplace. Employers are
subject to OSHA site inspections and must conform to a set of compreh
ensive rules and regulations. In contrast, in a developing country suc
h as India, comprehensive and universal safety regulations have not be
en developed. Workers are generally unskilled or semiskilled, poorly p
aid, temporarily employed, exhibit low production (productivity) rates
, and often migrate in a group from one place to another in search of
work. Typically, laborers are not trained in safe work practices, and
there tends to be a lack of management commitment to safety programs a
nd various safety procedures. In contrast, in a newly developed countr
y such as Taiwan, the owner and the contractor are assigned joint resp
onsibility for claims resulting from occupational accidents. A basic s
afety-control system, emphasizing the establishment of a safety commit
tee and self inspection, has been developed to control project safety.
This system may be universally applicable to both developed and devel
oping regions.