Scott Mugno, President Trump’s choice to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, will go before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee next Tuesday at 10:00 am for his confirmation hearing. Mugno is Vice President for Safety, Sustainability and Vehicle Maintenance at FedEx Ground in Pittsburgh and was formerly Managing Director for FedEx Express Corporate Safety, Health and Fire Protection in Memphis. You can watch it LIVE here.
Unfortunately, Mugno is one of four nominees to be considered at the hearing. (Two are Education Department appointees, and the other is William Beach, nominated to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics.) So Mugno is not likely to get a lot of questions at the hearing. Nevertheless, there are a number of areas that the Senators should focus on at the hearing or ask him in written questions after the hearing: