Wednesday, October 20, 2010

#imu If you are a safety professional this will of an interest to you.

In my opinion, OSHA is trying to mandate too many things. How are they going to enforce all of the things they are suppose too. Many companies are getting cited with big fines associated with the citations. I call this the new TAX. What better way of getting money in the backdoor way. This is my 2 cents worth.



Anyone want to make a comments?

Amplify’d from www.ishn.com
OSHA boss: “Mandatory safety and health programs can't come soon enough” (10/19)


“Mandatory safety and health programs can't come soon enough. In recent months we have witnessed a series of intolerable workplace tragedies: Seven workers were killed in a refinery fire in Anacortes, Washington; 29 coal miners perished in the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia; 11 more workers were lost in the Deepwater Horizon explosion off the coast of Louisiana; and when the Kleen Energy power plant construction site in Connecticut blew up on Super Bowl Sunday, six more workers were killed.


“And we know that safety and health programs fail if workers aren't at the table as full participants. I think it was Charlie Richardson who said it best yesterday – ‘If you are not at the table, you're on the menu.’
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