https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/national/04122022
Secretary Marty Walsh today joined Vice President Kamala Harris at the Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 Training Center in Philadelphia to announce the new enforcement program.
A new “enforcement” program. Centgov now expects the private sector to control summer.
Pissing away tax dollars. Great.
For those wondering what this is actually about, they are implementing health measures for those that work in heat.
Dear Lort. 
These efforts are part of a larger, interagency Biden-Harris administration effort to protect workers and communities from extreme heat and rising temperatures resulting from climate change.
That must be why Kamala hasn’t gone down to the border? The government hasn’t provided her this coverage for her working in excessive heat?
Why not? They think we can control the weather.
I wonder how much of what OSHA will now attempt to meddle in is a result of OSHA-required clothing layers and other “safety” overhead…
I wonder how many of those protective clothing rules were written in blood.
It’ll be along the lines of adequate hydration and shaded/cooled places to rest.
This how totalitarians start out. First it’s “Here, have some water” or “You can take your jacket off.” Next, you’re out in the killing fields, transitioning your economic system into a skull-based currency and putting millions in prison.
Government protecting its citizens is a huge no-no.
Allan
This is another reason for libs to get behind building the southern border wall. It’s too hot for those people to be outside so it’s absolutely the "V"irtuous thing to do. Surely “we” can all agree?
Fact: “ the three-year average of workplace deaths caused by heat has doubled since the early 1990s.”
Heat is an obvious, fixable problem in the workplace.
Allan
The people l?
True… for federal government wrt heat .
State government and local governments might see this as a legitimate function if the local population agrees.
Why would a country that runs from Alaska to Florida and Maine to Hawaii want a one-size-fits-all law regarding heat?
Sounds totalitarian to me.
Your second border related post in a thread about OSHA. Maybe you’d be happier in a different thread.
If the states were doing their job, there would be no need for the feds,
However the states obviously have missed the boat here.
Did you not read my fact.
Allan
Why? I’m providing a great idea for libs to save lives…simply by practicing what they’re preaching.
It’s not the feds job. Did you not read our constitution?
Heat exhaustion is heat exhaustion. The remedies remain the same wherever you are.
And obviously the means required in a field would be different than those required in a mine.
But the basics are the same: hydration, cooled resting periods, etc.
The federal government is not the Walmart of solutions. The constitution was not written to achieve maximum efficiency. That is a totalitarian goal. The constitution was written to LIMIT what the federal government is authorized to do. Where the hell did you get the idea that efficiency was the goal of our constitution?
Shoot, if employers were decent, there would be no need for the feds. That’s why we have an OSHA to begin with.
But we have been show time and time again how, if allowed, all other considerations are suborned to the profit motive.
