In response to such concerns, government regulation of workplace health and safety appears more appropriate ethically. Mandatory government stan¬dards address most of the problems raised against market strategies. Standards can be set according to the best available scientific knowledge and thus over¬come market failures that result from insufficient information. Standards pre¬vent employees from having to face the fundamentally coercive choice between job and safety. Standards also address the first generation problem by focus¬ing on prevention rather than compensation after the fact. Finally, standards are fundamentally a social approach that can address public policy questions ignored by markets.