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Risk reduction rely for their effectiveness on knowledge of risk
and a willingless to take action to reduce it. However, this alone is insuffecient, unless
it is covered by legal sanctions in the events of negligence leading to injury or illness.
Most countries have a safety law, backed by a system of enforcement. In addition people
injuried as a result of their work have the right to sue their employers. In the
developing countries, factory regulation enacted several decades ago in colonial times are
sometimes all that is available to provide for worker safety, i.e. WB jordanian law (1950).
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