Why is it difficult to achieve \"no production without safety\"?

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From the perspective of dialectical materialism, safety and production are a unified whole of contradictions, where the contradictions are superficial while the unity is essential. The two are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. There can be no talk of safety without production, and continuous production is impossible without safety. We should be clear that the latter two statements often mentioned, namely \"Safety promotes production; production must be safe; production is not allowed if it is unsafe,\" are very difficult to achieve. Although Article 17 of the Work Safety Law clearly stipulates that production and business operation entities shall meet the work safety requirements set out in this Law, as well as relevant laws, administrative regulations, and **standards or industry standards ； Those that do not meet the conditions for safe production shall not engage in production and business activities. There are four reasons why it is difficult to achieve this. First, production activities are the fundamental activities that meet people's needs. American social psychologist Maslow proposed the \"Hierarchy of Needs Theory\": physiological needs (which are the most fundamental and basic needs of humans, such as air, water, food, clothing, sexual desire, shelter, medical care, etc.), safety needs, needs for belonging and love, needs for respect, and the need for self-actualization. According to this theory, the need for safety comes in second place; if a higher-level need is not met, then the next lower-level need will be sacrificed. Second, production safety accidents are accidental. Although every accident has its inherent inevitability, as a whole it remains accidental. This contingency determines that it is not the main contradiction or the primary aspect of the production process. Third, production safety accidents are, after all, low-probability events. Taking cars as an example: In a certain province, there were 17.84 million cars, and 6,732 road traffic accidents occurred, resulting in 1,636 deaths – figures that accounted for 62.48% and 80.0% of the total number of work-related safety accidents in that province respectively ； They account for 3.78 per ten thousand and 0.92 per ten thousand of the total number of vehicles, respectively. Fourth is the resistance from **. **First, consider fiscal revenue, economic development, people's needs, and social stability. Getting the relationship between safety and production right means not overemphasizing the importance of one aspect while ignoring the importance of another. It is necessary to use Marxist philosophy to conduct a scientific analysis of a particular industry, enterprise, or situation, to determine which aspect—safety or production—is the primary contradiction and which is the secondary one, so as to find ways to solve the problems. To prevent a situation where production is prioritized over safety, or vice versa. People pursue a goal in all production processes, and that goal is “convenience” (ease, suitability). Reckless behavior is driven by a desire for shortcuts and to save time and effort. Enterprises adopt automation as well to reduce the workload and facilitate operations). It is people’s desire for convenience, their pursuit of it, and their efforts to achieve it that drive progress in the production process and enable it to advance from a lower to a higher level. Therefore, safety work must follow the principle that human production activities strive for convenience, guiding these activities in the right direction by shifting from a focus on prevention to one on mitigation. It is necessary to analyze which production activities and which companies are likely to encounter problems, what the probability of such problems is, the severity of the accidents that may occur, when the likelihood of problems is highest, why such problems arise, whether they can be reduced or avoided, and what methods can be used to do so ； Research the issues of how to ensure proper “steering” and protection for economic development, so as to take practical and effective measures to improve work safety.