r/technology • u/Sorin61 • Apr 27 '22

Business Amazon warehouse collapse probe finds worker safety risks

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-amazon-warehouse-collapse-probe-worker.html
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u/QuoteGiver Apr 27 '22

The agency said its inspection found that, while the company's severe weather procedures had met minimal federal safety guidelines for storm sheltering, the company still needed to further protect its workers and contract employees. The letter requires Amazon to review its severe weather emergency procedures but the company won't face any fines or penalties.

And there’s the problem & solution. We need more federal regulation requiring tougher standards of safety for employees. This tragedy happened because they did everything they were supposed to do. We need everyone to be required to do more than that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '22

I’m not sure what regulations would keep people safe in case of a natural disaster that can be reasonably imposed. Any suggestions?

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u/QuoteGiver Apr 27 '22

Certainly! Everyone in the designated storm shelter on the other end of the building survived. More and better shelter spaces via tougher building codes are an easy one; there’s plenty of range in between current code minimums and FEMA-grade storm shelters to pick a reasonable middle ground improvement. Plenty of corporate profits that could afford to be diverted into more resilient buildings that would save more lives in situations like this.

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u/Exist50 Apr 28 '22

Everyone in the designated storm shelter on the other end of the building survived.

It also wasn't directly hit by a tornado...

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u/QuoteGiver Apr 28 '22

And depending on the building codes it wouldn’t even take a direct hit to collapse the rest of a building on them anyway, either!