“We were up in a customer focus group in Milwaukee not long ago. We had companies there from Fortune 100 to mom and pops,” said the VP of safety for a major distributor. “I’d say seven out of ten had had recent brushes with OSHA. So OSHA is still a big driver of sales, no doubt about it.”
It’s been fashionable to write off OSHA in recent years. The toothless agency. The rusted out standards mill. Off the radar screen of U.S. business.