Talk:Occupational Safety and Health Administration/Archives/2011

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I think the suggestion to Wikify this page is a good one. I plan to give it a shot, but I am not very skilled in using templates and wiki-tools in general.

You can tell this by the fact that I haven't figured out how to templatize this discussion page (other discussion pages seem to have a "thread" template going.65.5.66.96 22:04, 21 April 2006 (UTC)tnick

Why do the Republicans want to prevent OSHA guidelines on carpal tunnel etc?

I don't know why republicans want to prevent those guidelines. I doubt that all republicans agree on that or anything else.

As a taxpayer, an american consumer, and an employee, I do not want to pay (in taxes, in higher costs, in increased beuracacy at my workplace, and in decreased ability to compete globally) for unnecessary government mandated programs.

American workers have enormous avenues to achieve safer work environment. More complex laws is not a good answer.

Maybe if we looked over all the osha regs and deleted a higher-cost/lower-return reg whenever we wanted to add a new one, we would get a workable system.

I think we are starting to work toward a NPOV with this article. A little more work and we will be there. Maybe we should try to get the controversial part into a "controversy" section, and get the SPOV adjectives out of the straight fact paragraphs.

I have in my hand, the current copy of CFR 1926. It is nearly 700 pages long (8/12 x 11 pages). CFR 1926 is for the construction industry. These regs apply to a guy who has a teenager working for him, and comes to paint your house. Of course, these are not all the OSHA regs that apply in that case. CFR 1910 sometimes takes precedence. I believe much of the controvery over osha rulemaking and enforcing stems from this kind of craziness.

Maximum Penalties Issued By OSHA

Although this article claims six months in jail and misdemeanor penalty is the maximum, the actual page cited reads under Section 17 h(2), "shall be punished by imprisonment for any term of years or for life." And there are many other examples on the same page that cite fines of over 10,000 and 70,000, and also 1 year in jail, not the dubious 6 months claimed in this article. (Please see http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=OSHACT&p_id=3371, and look at Sec 17 e; Sec 17 g; Sec 17 h(2) for examples. I propose either a striking of this dubious sentence or an amendment to state the truth. Firemanic9 (talk) 08:16, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

The life imprisonment penalty mentioned on the page linked above is specifically for the murder of an OSHA inspector or similar individual while performing their duties. That sort of penalty does not apply to any sort of violation of OSHA regulations--it is a penalty for murder. Imprisonment as a result of an OSHA rules violation is almost unheard of, even where workers are killed--fines are the norm. Refer to such cases as a recent $87 million fine for BP over failure to correct deficiencies that resulted in a 2005 explosion that killed 25 workers. (There was a $25 million fine at that time, but no imprisonment for anyone. As a side note, one should realize that BP makes billions of dollars in profit every year, see Financial Statement, so fines of a few tens of millions of dollars mean nothing to them.) You can read about any number of citations on OSHA's web site going back years, and I doubt you will find any penalties other than fines. --Cotinis (talk) 15:59, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

OSHA orange

I saw a sweatshirt marketed as having the color OSHA orange--what is this?

It may mean that the color is recommended by OSHA for use by people working near construction sites. It is probably a loud, fluorescent color. 12.186.80.1 20:38, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Of coure, OSHA does not specify colors in that level of detail so in that sense there is no such thing as "OSHA Orange." Most likely it is the same as "Hunter orange" - a highly visible orange color intended to make the wearer harder to miss within a complicated or busy worksite. Pzavon 01:51, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Need more cites to maintain NPOV

Postings by 207.172.155.31 are a bit strong and need more substantiation. He's probably not wrong, but citations would strengthen the position. --John Nagle 07:22, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

job-safety analysis

new article: Timeline

hey OSHA editors -- I created a new article quite a while ago, and since then haven't had a chance to follow up: Timeline of major US environmental and occupational health regulation. Please take a look and add/subtract/modify at your pleasure. I would ask that you please read the talk page first for a description of why I chose that name, and what I intended for the article. thanks! bikeable (talk) 03:27, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

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Oregon OSHA

A Oregon OSHA article was created by user:Oregon OSHA who seems to have roughly the same info as a userpage, suggesting a slight misunderstanding. It needs wikified and categories, so help will undoubtedly be appreciated. Thanks, .. dave souza, talk 11:47, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

OSHA's Funding

I work in a warehouse. One of the supervisors there told me that OSHA is no longer government funded. He said they are handing down bigger fines because of it. According to him, this has been the case for at least five years. If anyone can confirm or deny this, please post some info here. Highonhendrix (talk) 11:53, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

That claim is completely untrue. OSHA is an agency of the the Federal Department of Labor. Federal budgets include specific line items for OSHA funding that control, among other things, how many inspectors OSHA is permitted to have on the payroll. Pzavon (talk) 01:20, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

OSHA

Where would you look for deeper information about OSHA besides internet and books . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.61.30.58 (talk) 13:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Contact a local OSHA office and ask questions

Insurance Companies

I know that private insurance companies do a lot of health and safety inspections and impose a lot of health and safety regulations to reduce the number of workmen compensation claims. I don't know the percentage they do compared to OSHA and which are more effective? Do the two overlap? Do they look for different problems? Is there a reason for having both? Bostoner (talk) 01:19, 20 July 2011 (UTC)