Former OSHA chief warns Congress about a “false choice”
Forcing OSHA to choose between focusing on enforcement or compliance assistance is “a false choice,” according to Dr. David Michaels, former assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health and current professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at The George Washington University in Washington.
In testimony yesterday before a House subcommittee on workforce protections, Michaels said OSHA must do both enforcement and compliance assistance – and did both during the Obama administration.