A fork in the road: Bush OSHA vs. Obama OSHA
OSHA Healthcare Connection, January 13, 2009
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With the Obama administration about to start next week, the Bush-era OSHA legacy has taken some strong hits recently.
A December 29 Washington Post article characterized OSHA under President Bush as "mired in inaction." It's a situation akin to "turning a ketchup bottle upside down, banging the bottom of the container, and nothing comes out," Robert Harrison, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco and chairman of the occupational health section of the American Public Health Association, told the newspaper.
Meanwhile, safety groups and organized labor are champing at the bit to revive OSHA regulatory activity under an Obama administration, according to Inside OSHA, January 5.
Items at the top of the list include adding the musculoskeletal column to the OSHA log of work-related injuries and illnesses, adopting the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, and reintroducing an ergonomics standard.
The Service Employees International Union, which is active in the healthcare sector, will push for an airborne transmissible disease and workplace violence standards, according to the report.
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