If present conditions persist, up to 4,000 more may die "before a ball is kicked in 2022," according to the International Trade Union Confederation, which monitors workers' rights across the globe.
Ultimately, it's up to the companies to define "progressive," Scott Nova, the executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, which independently monitors workers' rights worldwide, told The Huffington Post.
And while Mr. Winthrop did not run into such problems, monitoring worker safety in places like Bangladesh, where hundreds of textile workers have died in recent years in fires and other disasters, has become a huge challenge.
However, leading banks like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are now working with tech companies to put systems in place to monitor worker emotions and boost performance and compliance.
Codes of conduct demanded by Western retailers to improve conditions are worthless if double books mean there's no way of monitoring worker hours.
Gehry has been more active than some of his famous peers in confronting this issue, hiring a human-rights lawyer to monitor worker safety on the Guggenheim.
Stable isotope tracing for monitoring exposures to nanoproducts has many potential uses, including incorporation of a tracer in the production process to monitor worker exposure.
One approach might be to use functional genomic experiments that perturb hub genes or their neighbours, and then monitor worker phenotype.
For more than a century, occupational physicians and industrial hygienists have monitored worker populations for exposure to a variety of hazardous substances.
Wider availability of engineering and administrative controls in the industries may be facilitated by monitoring worker discomfort, disability, and performance in more intensive ways so that the top management is able to justify the associated cost benefits.
