Bush nominees Foulke, Stickler face senators' questions
President Bush’s nominee to head OSHA, Edwin G. Foulke Jr., told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Jan. 31 that if confirmed he would work to make the agency more proactive in preventing workplace deaths and fatalities.
Foulke, an attorney for Jackson Lewis based in South Carolina, served as chair of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission from 1990 to 1995. He is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Special Expertise Panel on Employee Health, Safety and Security.