Anyone have a non-paywalled copy? I’d be so curious to see the breakdown in licensing practices across professions. As others have pointed out - it feels risky to not license plumbers, electricians, contractors.

But there are many trades that require licensing that…. Maybe don’t. My state requires nail techs to be licensed but basically anyone can walk in and get licensed. It’s a paper test that’s easily cheated on. So yes for nail techs in my particular state, I bet this licensing scheme does just raise prices and the cost of doing business with no real benefits to health and safety of the public. Similarly auctioneers need a special license. Why??? I’d love to see more analysis of those issues.

"don't worry those toxic ohio chemicals in the ground and water and on your car and that you can see in the runoff whenever it rains will quickly evaporate into the air you breath"

The solution to this is license reciprocity or national licensing standards though, not removing licensing entirely.

Its cosmetology for hair, not cosmological which is about space, that's not really helping your arguement, and cosmetologists have to work with sharp implements and chemicals that can be dangerous/ harmful so it is important they know what they are doing.

The issue with not allowing out of state professionals isn't an issue with licensing but with your state not accepting the licensing of other states, some states do recognize the licensing from other states so that is a problem that could be solved by states working together to have similar standards and making their licenses reciprocal.

Every state in the US requires licensing for hairstylists and barbers.

OSHA 1910.136 requires steel toe shoes protective footwear in a warehouse environment. When you have proof that something exists and someone is staunchly arguing that it doesn’t, I don’t see a problem asking them to prove their stance.

There’s also a huge potential for blood borne pathogen spread due to the use of straight razors, waxing, etc that requires appropriate training in technique, single use implements, blood spill procedure and sanitation.

Along with the potential to spread things like lice if the stylist isn’t trained on what to look for and appropriately cleaning and sterilizing tools.

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So cities are literally killing us faster. Good to know.

I would have thought forklifts ans such lifters would have been automated by now or atleast remote controlled would have become more common place since the tech is very mature at thispoint

You want proof that something doesn't exist?

I worked in the industry for 20 years. Toe injuries happen, but are not common. My only injury in that time was an eye laceration.

> I’m Canadian and not sure how little American workers are

Protection has little to do with it. Most of the people cycling through our local distribution center are young, careless, and really don't care. And even through their numbers are higher than the veterans, the worse is the Medicaid bouncers. Pick up two weeks, call off most shifts, and BACK PAIN! They are just there trying to cheat the system. HR at a different factory I worked was way more selective, but the distribution center didn't seem to care. Probably because it's skill less, chucking boxes on belts and off belts to trucks.

You seem confident in your statement. Can you offer any evidence beyond ‘’my manger said I don’t have to”?

Definitely nope. Then we will end up crazy house fires all the time with subcontractors hiring out their cousin to do electrical then only announcing it to the foreman who would conveniently forget it later.

And that's just the residential problems from unlicensed electrical work.

Imagine unlicensed civil engineering killing dozens a few years later and you find out that company already folded and the person who fucked up is already effectively gone.

For electrical let’s pretend the guy with a J card who did my houses wiring didn’t leave so many shorts I’ve have to replace 1/2 the breaks and it’s a net positive in workmanship. Fine.

What’s the net benefit to preventing a women from braiding hair without a cosmological license. Or arresting the guy repairing a roof in florida who’s a licensed roofer in another state? How about the fact that my board certified wife can’t practice medicine in another state despite being a respected and published MD on the staff of a top medical school?

My nurse isn’t higher quality because her certification is from NYC instead of Jersey.

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They're recommended, but not required. It's a common hazard to get your toes/feet injured moving around heavy pallets, too, so they're appropriate.

Not required.

Workplaces that only supply the bare minimum aren't safe workplaces.

If this created a serious issue that licensing solves then surely we should find a discernible difference in cases of injuries sustained in salons in states that do not require licensing vs. those that do, right?

Because I doubt there are.

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For some of the small states and people living on borders then you may have to get multiple licenses in multiple states to do the work you want. This can be a big barrier

They absolutely are not. They should be, but they are not.

Go for it. It seems like drivers in late life decline get a pass unless their family steps in. While it might be irritating when it happens, sound minded me would rather have future me be stopped by a system before hurting anyone. Self driving cars might actually work by then anyway so it wouldn’t even be an issue.

EVs create huge pollution problems of their own. We need less cars and more walkability/bike infrastructure/public transit, not heavier cars.

https://carbuzz.com/news/ev-tires-worse-for-the-environment-than-tailpipe-emissions