Charles Norwood: “yesterday the Secretary of Labor issued a so-called analysis that supposedly showed that Republican OSHA reforms would…”

“yesterday the Secretary of Labor issued a so-called analysis that supposedly showed that Republican OSHA reforms would lead to more workplace injuries. This is outrageous fearmongering. Instead of playing politics, the Secretary should be finding an answer for the question we have asked: Why, after spending over $4 billion, is there so little evidence that OSHA has made a real impact on reducing injuries and deaths? The Secretary is fond of noting that injury rates have been declining since OSHA's birth in 1970, but he rarely mentions that those rates have been dropping, indeed, since 1946. Perhaps the Secretary just does not want to consider the real world. Maybe he is just too busy trying to figure out that government can run our lives to think that OSHA really is a failure. It is time the American taxpayer insisted that OSHA spend at least half of its funds on health and safety in the workplace, rather than hiring dictators to fine small businesses.”