What's Your Opinion: What’s the most effective method for OSHA to help ensure worker safety?
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October 28, 2014
OSHA personnel are trained to see safety issues in the work place. This being said these specialists should be looked at as leaders in helping a business being in compliance and then is the business does not implement these suggestions that business should be held accountable. Most businesses are trying to keep their employees and communities safe but sometimes miss the little things. That is where OSHA can play a big part. It is not always about the Money.
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October 28, 2014
Information is powerful. Many construction focused training programs sit unwilling participants in classrooms (which is not their optimum learning place) for hours at a time parsing out volumes of information that is not always helpful. Training programs for construction workers need to be short, concise and interesting with as much physical involvement as possible. This is how construction workers learn best. OSHA 10 and 30 hr. programs are well and good but the required process must be improved if we are to truly change the culture of the trainee.
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October 28, 2014
In reality OSHA has to justify their existence by generating revenue to the General Fund. That being said, it would be a great deal more beneficial if OSHA had more compliance assistance than what is presently offered. It would go a long way towards a safer work environment and help their image. Will it happen? No. That is where we as safety professionals come in. We have make sure our employers understand who we are and what we do for them. That way when OSHA knocks we can open the door with relative comfort we have a safe company for our employees.
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October 29, 2014
I agree with Doug on his 10/28/14 comment. Make the 1st round inspection more on the things a small business might have missed an give them a chance to correct. Not slap a big fine on them. Shorter insp. times, more insp. done 1st time around for OSHA = less inspectors.