41.   The central government is trying to close small illegal mines throughout the country because of lax safety standards, heavy pollution and oversupply.

42.   The disaster was also another black eye for Petrobras, which has come under fire for allegedly lax safety standards.

43.   The fire was the latest in a string of deadly accidents in China, where lax safety regulations are compounded by spotty enforcement.

44.   The government, accused of turning a blind eye to lax safety measures and old ferries, is fighting to regain credibility.

45.   The government in recent months has moved to correct lax safety and issued new regulations, including requiring mines to buy accident insurance for their workers.

46.   Yet recently, the weekly magazine Itogi criticized its poor service and lax safety standards.

47.   But unlike those incidents, it quickly emerged that the Selby crash was not due to lax safety standards or mismanagement or human error.

48.   Chinese Coal Minister Zhang Baoming recently blamed lax safety standards for the heavy toll.

49.   Like many other blazes in China, the high number of dead was the result of extremely lax safety standards, state media and witnesses said.

50.   Many passengers have criticised what they see as lax safety standards in the industry, and some foreign embassies and companies forbid their staff from flying with Nigerian firms.