Improving Workplace Safety in Chile through Proactive Inspections

2018-12-17T18:11:16-06:00

Improving Workplace Safety in Chile through Proactive InspectionsEvery year, thousands of Chileans are killed or injured in work-related accidents. This was recently brought to light during the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. Chile’s labor ministry, Dirección del Trabajo (DT), is tasked with increasing workplace safety through inspections and enforcement. But DT’s inspections are largely reactive: complaints come [...]