Many people conducting research on health and safety at work today believe that, although the working conditions in the majority of organizations are much better than those described above, many basic problems remain. Many employers take account of work hazards only when legislation requires them to do so. Workers in the Third World still often suffer under conditions exactly like those described above, working in subcontracted sweatshops for global corporations, and child labor is rife. Even in developed Western countries, accidents and occupational disease continue to take an alarming toll on human life.