most workers take unnecessary risks rather than deal with even slight discomfort, and that it is nearly impossible for management to get workers to take safety or environmental concerns seriously.

I don't know a single worker on a construction site that won't wear steel toe shoes, jeans, long sleeve shirts, orange vests, and hardhats, even on 100 degree plus days. Those are hardly comfortable but they know from safety stats that they save limbs and sometimes lives.

I have no idea what you are 'saying here'.

[but I do of course. I understand the big gov argument and at it's root it is admirable. But some of the rationale (on both sides) gets unreal].