Is OSHA hurting consulting and training businesses?
As OSHA continues to crank out free training and compliance assistance materials, some workplace safety and health consultants and training vendors are crying foul.
"My tax dollars are going to OSHA, which literally competes against me and every other local consultant," says one agitated consultant in New England. "OSHA was established to be the cop on the beat - not the teacher on the beat. The private sector can well handle the teaching, more professionally and with better resources than OSHA's personnel. But even better and professional can't compete against 'free'.