Pete Domenici: “OSHA Determined To Rush Rules Into Effect Employers are sweeping the corners for workers in a tight labor market and…”

“OSHA Determined To Rush Rules Into Effect Employers are sweeping the corners for workers in a tight labor market and striving to increase productivity levels that already are the envy of the world. Does this sound like the sort of business climate in which employers would ignore ergonomic problems that sap productivity or create hard-to-fill vacancies? The U.S. Department of Labor, which still subscribes to an antique notion of proletariat oppressed by capitalists, seems eminently capable of disregarding the present reality even as it acknowledges it. Charles N. Jeffress, head of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, says companies in the United States and abroad have developed policies on ergonomics that have reduced injuries caused by repetitive tasks. Of course they have and done so without being hammered by OSHA because it makes good business sense.”