From the field: Reactions to OSHA’s public posting proposal
OSHA has opened an attack on the largest employers with this recordkeeping initiative.
These are the employers who have safety professionals on staff. They are the ones with safety and health management programs. They are "The Best" according to Dr. Michaels in his I2P2 propaganda.
So this new regulatory initiative exposes the Michaels' ruse about I2P2. Michaels is not interested in celebrating "the best," he is interested in citing them to feed his shaming press release engine.
What a crock--but certainly predictable.
This regulatory initiative is a tacit admission that OSHA knows that it has failed in its 40+ year history. OSHA is going to hold up for public ridicule the employers who classically have the best compliance management and response to OSHA regulations. What else can that be but an admission of an OSHA systemic failure?
Tom Lawrence
For years I worked with executives who—despite owning a firm that provided safety services as one of its offering—were completely clueless about the business of safety. One manifestation of their collective ignorance was their insistence that I "go on the computer" and get the injury rates of big companies. Their reasoning was that "that information has to be on line" and they implied that I was either lazy or stupid for not being able to find it, and this was almost ten years ago. The point is, the public (more specifically the shillers of safety goods and services) already assumes or expects that this information is readily available, so I don't think it will be any sort of major change on the public front.