The steady stream of enforcement announcements issued by OSHA – which identified companies who commit major safety and health violations and revealed the fines levied against them – may have stopped on inauguration day, but a former OSHA official is getting the information out there, by posting it on his blog.
Jordan Barab, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor at OSHA form 2009 to 2017, says that naming names in press releases provides a strong deterrent to would-be violators and helps OSHA leverage its limited resources.