THE UNTOLD STORY of what happens when 'Dirty Jobs' meets 'angry acronyms':

The hidden cost of compliance is so hidden — I don’t know how big it is, but the people I talk to over and over, every single industry — from big, heavily regulated industries like mining to all forms of construction — it’s crushing.

I did a special called ‘Safety Third,’ because the whole ‘safety first’ mentality was creating a kind of counterintuitive — it was fostering complacency, at least on my crew. And so all of the mandatory things, all of the compulsory meetings, everything we had to do wound up making us less safe. And so that became a thing.

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