Individual bargaining between employers and employees would be the approach to work place health and safety favored by defenders of the free market and the classical model of corporate social responsibility. On this account employees would be free to choose the risks that they are willing to face by bargaining with employers. Employees set their own risk versus wage preferences and decide how much risk they are willing to face for various wages. Those who demand maximum safety presumably would have to settle for lower wages; those willing to take higher risks presumably would demand higher wages. In a competitive and free labor market, such individual bargaining would result in the optimal distribution of safety and income. Of course, the market approach can also sanction compensatory payments to injured workers when it can be shown that employers were negligently liable for causing the harms. The threat of compensatory payments also acts as an incentive for employers to maintain a reasonably safe and health workplace.