But there are several problems with such an approach to workplace health and safety issues. First, this approach treats employees disrespectfully by ignoring their input. Such paternalistic decision making effectively treats employees like children and makes crucial decisions for them. Second, in making this decision, the approach assumes that health and safety are mere preferences that can be traded-off against competing values. Third, it assumes an equivalence between workplace risks and other types of risks when there are significant differences between them. Unlike many daily risks, the risks faced in the workplace within the may not be freely chosen, nor are the risks faced in the workplace within the control of workers. Perhaps most importantly, unlike daily risks the risks faced at work can be controlled by others and particularly by others who may stand to benefit by not reducing them.