http://law.lexisnexis.com/practiceareas/...ion-Board/
"During the Bush years, Whitmore became increasingly vocal in criticizing the steady decline in the accuracy of mandated industry reports of on-the-job accidents and illnesses, as well as his agency’s growing aversion toward enforcing recordkeeping requirements."
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"Ironically, the Obama administration is now moving to adopt some of the reforms that Whitmore had long urged."
LexisNexis is a legal web site and has many members who follow labor/union issues.
Well. if it needs fixing, then let it be fixed...
OSHA Finds Problems Identified In GAO's Report Alarming
"The report identifies worker intimidation as well as a number of disincentives that may discourage workers and employers from reporting work-related injuries and illnesses. The report also notes widespread reports from occupational health practitioners who were pressured not to record an injury or illness."
Disinformation and information supression was widespread in many governement agencies during the Bush administration. I'm sure they will find many more intentional efforts to conceal information.
http://www.workerscompensation.com/compn...hagao.html
For starters, why are so many industries "exempt" from OSHA reporting? I worked in education, and the annual OSHA form 300 that is required by private industry is not required by public entities such as school districts. This is a log where all work injuries are logged; not including names or private info, just injuries.
We had an annual OSHA inspection, with advance notice. That was it!
Worker's Comp Reported Injuries were kept separate. OSHA had to be contacted if a fatality occured, but nothing else.
i don't how decisons that create OSHA Regulations are made.
just a wild guess but i would think they would try to match the cost of record keeping/enforcement with what injury outcomes OSHA can affect positively.
e.g.
some employments and occupations are more practical and esier to improve injury occurrances then others and those are the ones they want data in order to monitor.
Maybe Sarah will do better beginning in 2012. Whatcha think?