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cucumber3732842today at 10:40 AM2 repliesview on HN

In the US spewing all the alarms at the line level employees and fatiguing the shit out of them is a direct (and predictable, but of course everyone who complained in advance got sneered at by the usual demographics) result of OSHA policy. Same bunch of moronic incentives that result in there being a policy against everything and employees technically violating the rules to work normally. Whenever you see an alarm fatigue workplace there's usually a rule in the rulebook that says they have to stop what they're doing for every alarm until it's triaged and documented. This is how the rules financially incentivize the company to act even if it's stupid and results in more screw ups.


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pjc50today at 11:57 AM

> a policy against everything and employees technically violating the rules to work normally.

This is called "normalization of deviance" and generally should be avoided, because it often precedes a serious accident.

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ubertacotoday at 11:45 AM

Yeah, if only the government didn't regulate that pesky

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workplace safety, then for-profit companies could be free to act for the good of all, like they always do!

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