CSB chief welcomes safe workplaces Executive Order
Statement of Rafael Moure-Eraso, Chairperson of the U.S. Chemical Safety And Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), on the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. (Statement issued on Thursday, July 31, 2014.)
I want to applaud the President for announcing earlier today his intention to issue the “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Executive Order (EO). This groundbreaking executive order will for the first time specifically require government contracting officers to consider a firm’s record of labor law violations – including those involving worker safety and health – as a factor in awarding federal contracts. Many thousands of workers performing potentially hazardous work will be safer when this executive order is fully implemented.