This way of testing bullet-proof vests would never get past health and safety checks these days, thankfully

05 Jan 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health and safety, labour economics, law and economics Tags:

The relative risks of nuclear and other energy sources

03 Jan 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in energy economics, environmental economics, health and safety, health economics Tags: , ,

Yosemite National Park, 1915

01 Jan 2015 Leave a comment

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Is this photo for real?

26 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health and safety Tags:

Excuse of the year – Newman would be proud

24 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

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Ultimate Close Call Compilation

24 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

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Obesity by occupation

19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health and safety, health economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: ,

Another Reason Mondays Are The Worst | FiveThirtyEight

17 Dec 2014 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in health and safety, labour economics Tags:

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via Another Reason Mondays Are The Worst | FiveThirtyEight.

‘What were you thinking?’: Police shocked at tourist driver – National News | TVNZ

16 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of regulation, health and safety, transport economics Tags:

A tourist driver was caught carrying a kayak crossways across his roof. Photo / Police

A tourist caught driving with a kayak tied cross-ways across his car roof told shocked police that he was just trying to preserve his vehicle.

via ‘What were you thinking?’: Police shocked at tourist driver – National News | TVNZ.

How Americans die on the job in one chart

15 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

Job deaths chart

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Richard Posner described the engines of women’s liberation

10 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

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Did which of the Great Enrichment and OSHA make the workplace safer?

01 Dec 2014 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health and safety, labour economics Tags: , ,

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Original source of graph: Viscusi, W. Kip, John M. Vernon, and Joseph E. Harrington, Jr. Economics of Regulation and Antitrust. 2nd ed. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1992, page 714.

HT: Art Diamond

What occupations are the most dangerous?

29 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: ,

via John Lott’s Website: What occupations are the most dangerous?.

Wellington City Council builds inner city children’s sandpit next to red-stickered buildings marked for collapse in next earthquake

07 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of bureaucracy, health and safety, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: , , , ,

Pop Stars Actually Do Die Too Young – The Atlantic

30 Oct 2014 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: , ,

via Pop Stars Actually Do Die Too Young – The Atlantic.

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