Thanks Oscar, So it looks like less than a child per year is lost. Although, I feel one child is too many, we need to take a look at how this compares to other industries to see if the risk for children is high in this industry. I think the numbers would show that programs are a safe alternative for children at risk.
Based on these numbers it is also easy to see that the effort should be placed on improvement of the industry and their procedures to continue to reduce the number to Zero and not on closing facilities unless they show a disregard for children safety.
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You are somehow right. Children dies even when they are working or going to school.
However we have to look if a death can be prevented. When a school laboratory explode as it has happened or if a worker has an arm or head chopped off then the police is quickly replaced with people from our
The Danish Working Environment Authority. Their only purpose in life are to investigate how the accident took place and to decide whether they have investigated such a death before and if it could have been prevented. They visit firms and schools unannounced to see if their guidelines are followed and huge fines are given to firms or schools, which fail to follow their guidelines.
In Denmark we have a goal which is zero deaths in relation with either work or school. Since we started to chart every death accidents in schools and workplaces have been reduced to 25% of the original number.
I believe that your country should have such a federal agency also. Why should a kid die in the field when his death is an exact copy of previous deaths? Should the medical staff not be able to stop sending a kid out in the desert without looking at if possible loss of income could put their job at risk?
It took most states about 20 years and a lot of death kids to learn what kind of restraints that kills. Some states have not learned the lesson yet and it is just a matter of time before we learn what kind of name which should be written on the gravestone.
I urge that some learn from each death. Once this death at Sagewalk is finished in the court system then who will take all the knowledge the sheriff office has learned and make it into a kind of law so the next death based on the same circumstances can be prevented in Oregon or all the other States? I don't understand why such agency has not been created already, if not by the state but then by the insurance companies. They end up paying big time everytime some school, program or firm cause a death by simple neglect.
Personally I believe that most deaths in Aspen's program could have been prevented the last 10 years. They were not sudden deaths. There were warning signs hours before, which were ignored.