A true statement about the market controlled approach to health and safety is that in this approach:
A. this approach can support compensation to injured workers when it can be shown that employers were responsible for causing the harm.
B. employers treat their employees disrespectfully by ignoring their inputs as stakeholders.
C. the utilitarian concern for the consequences of an unsafe working environment on the social fabric is ignored.
D. this approach assumes an equivalency between workplace risks and other types of risks when there are actually significant differences between them.
Answer: A
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