New Agenda
The Secretary of Labor and Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA recently spoke at the ASSE conference - detailing that OSHA is back in the enforcement business. Good news or bad news? From my perspective it is great to see the agency have a proactive agenda that goes after bad actors, and an agenda that signifies a push to enact long-awaited standards that need to be finalized. However - let's all wait and see what happens with this agenda before we get too carried away. It is a positive sign the agency has increased penalties on their own - without Congressional action. And it's great to see them send signals that we have a lot of work to do. But again, reality will set in sooner or later and the agency will come to realize it is easier said than done as far as moving standards forward. But the signals they sent last week are very positive. I'm one willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and offer my support for their efforts.