workplace safety
Workplace safety is a series of rituals performed to create the illusion that employees won’t get hurt. Meanwhile, hazards on the worksite are routinely left unaddressed under the guise of “training” and “manuals.” Safety signs become colorful yet vacuous decorations, and real risks are elevated into slogans of shifting blame. The ritual patrols titled “inspections” imprint a specter of surveillance on the premises. Yet when accidents occur, it is customary to appease concerns with perfunctory apologies and the establishment of a hotline.