Does it really matter to safety and health pros whether Vice President Al Gore or Governor George W. Bush wins the race for the White House next month?
Democrats are supposed to be OSHA’s friends, while Republicans see it as a beast that needs to be tamed. But that’s not the way it’s always worked out over the agency’s 30-year existence. One ex-OSHA official says many bureaucrats inside the agency are “confused” after eight years of Clinton appointees running the show. “You’ve had a Democratic administration, which is supposed to be good for OSHA, but not much has happened,” he explains.