EDITORIAL COMMENTS: Be careful what you ask for...
So we have “The Workplace Full Disclosure for Safety’s Sake Act.†Employers will submit each year reports of safety and health activities and results to NIOSH. NIOSH, in turn, will use the reports to create a national database for benchmarking best practices. More intriguing, NIOSH will also use the information to issue an annual “SafetyGrades for Work Sites in America Study.â€
At the signing ceremony at the headquarters of McWane, Inc., in Birmingham, Ala., President Warner proclaims, “This reporting system will celebrate the quality of America’s workplace safety improvement processes. If all work sites perform as well as the sites receiving the highest SafetyGrades, the United States will be more competitive in the global marketplace.â€