"A new year, a new Administration and a new Congress provide us with a fresh opportunity to revisit the law's effectiveness."
"We must honor those families and their memories by working to reduce worker deaths and injuries."
"I mean it just seems incongruous to me that families who have a fatally injured family member that they're burying gets less compensation than what we are fining the employer."
"You know the majority of employers who get an OSHA citation choose to negotiate with their local OSHA office for an informal settlement."
"I'm particularly interested in how families are treated during an accident or an accident investigation."
"I agree with you that some changes are necessary to make the law and the agency more effective."
"We're here today to talk about what more government can do to ensure that every worker who punches in for their next shift, returns home safe and healthy at the end of the day."
"Their participation in this process will help hold bad actors accountable and help to spare other families the same pain they have experienced."
"Unfortunately over the last several years OSHA has not lived up to its mission to make workers safer on the job."
"Senator Shelby has been a real leader on this in the Banking Committee."
"We cannot have that."