The American Road and Transportation Builders Association, the Associated General Contractors of America, and the National Asphalt Pavement Association, for example, issued a joint statement to the agency arguing that workers exposed to moving traffic during highway construction should not be protected under the General Duty Clause… Some groups argued that the new interpretation still doesn’t relax the standards enough. The Steel Manufacturers Association made a comment urging the agency to “more comprehensively prevent the misuse and misapplication of the General Duty Clause that we observed under previous administrations… “Although the preamble to [the proposal] suggests that the sports and entertainment industries are the intended targets of this rulemaking effort, the text of the proposed rule sets forth a non-exhaustive list of industries that may be subject to the proposed carveout,” noted a comment from North America’s Building Trades Union, a labor organization representing construction workers. And at the same time the agency seeks to limit the scope of the General Duty Clause, it’s using the clause as a justification for weakening other workplace safety laws. That includes its efforts to roll back construction illumination requirements, arguing that the General Duty Clause renders the rule unnecessary. “A specific standard for illumination is not necessary because a lack of illumination is a prototypical “recognized hazard . . . likely to cause serious death or serious physical injury” under the General Duty Clause,” the agency argued.
Chat, is it woke to not die or receive permanent injuries at work?
Respirator fit testing. This means the entire work force in hospitals taking care of us during COVID. They stay safe by virtue of vaccines and respirators that fit securely such that they do not let the virus in. Doctors, nurses, techs, respiratory therapists, xray/imaging, and the people at the desk that take your information and check you in.
In addition, this is every trade profession that works with concrete dust, metal dust, sawdust, noxious fumes (exterminators, boat painters/sealers, etc), people who deal with drywall and insulation, and asbestos remediation.
Fuck all those people. Amiright?
Yeah, but consider how it costs the company hundreds of dollars. That’s hundreds of dollars the owners might be stuffing in their pockets instead.
I’m sure if they thought they could get away with it, they’d cancel requirements to provide PPE at all.
blue collar R voters: “hell i’ll take a little death and dismemberment if it means owning the libs”
Sounds about right under the Trump administration.
Trump, the working class hero according to a bunch of rich media guys: “Workplace safety regulations are only for office dandies”
Republicans be like “I love it when corporations cripple people’s children for profit. also I love it when people go into medical debt”
If anything I’ll be only buying canadian made cars in the future.
I’ve worked with so many working class guys who are totally against OSHA and safety regulations that they’ll talk about this as a win for them.
‘They just make it harder to do your job’
Oh the Whiny Guy™. Yeah its weird how like half of those guys seem to get injured and then I never see them doing physical labor anymore.
OHSHIT.
