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One of the larger omissions in the Occupational Safety and Health Act is that the law doesn’t extend to state or local governments, meaning public employees don’t have the same protection guarantees as those in private industry.
In this week’s OSHA Roundup, OSHA and the U.S. Postal Service come to an agreement while the agency clamps down on auto shop hazards in Pacific islands.
CSB is an independent agency. That makes it, to a degree, answerable to no one. It’s free to investigate an incident without fear (in theory) of an oversight agency such as OSHA telling it what to do or what type of findings to release. This is good, obviously, but it goes both ways – CSB can’t force an agency to change.
Occasionally, someone says something about safety I find noteworthy. Recently, a stakeholder questioned the response to deadly chemical explosions similar to what occurred at the fertilizer plant in West, TX.
