Risk reduction rely for their effectiveness on knowledge of risk and a willingless to take action to reduce it. However, this alone is insuffecient, unless it is covered by legal sanctions in the events of negligence leading to injury or illness. Most countries have a safety law, backed by a system of enforcement. In addition people injuried as a result of their work have the right to sue their employers. In the developing countries, factory regulation enacted several decades ago in colonial times are sometimes all that is available to provide for worker safety, i.e. WB jordanian law (1950).