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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The manufacturing industry has always been at odds with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The adversarial relationship stems from the OSHA's unreasonable laws and harsh and strict penalties, which manufacturers see as counterproductive to improving workplace safety and health. Since its inception in 1971, the OSHA took several voluntary standards and made them regulations. Most industry stalwarts believe that this should not have happened. Such standards were only meant to serve as guidelines for the workplace.See the full content of this document
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OSHA reform: bedrock or hemlock?
The basic relationship between the American manufacturing/business community and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Washington, DC, was forged amid mistrust and suspicion when OSHA was created by Congress in 1971.
For good or ill, the character of this relationship has changed little in over 23 years. One steel company executive likens OSHA to a "bureaucratic nightmare that hasn't kept up with the changing workplace. Rather than build partnerships with industry and labor it continues to fall back on compliance standards and methods that are adversarial at best." Whether or not OSHA is guilty of bad business...See the full content of this document
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