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In an official ceremony on March 20, President George W. Bush quashed ten years of OSHA rulemaking with the swipe of his pen.

Maybe it’s guilt, maybe it’s cover your political rear, maybe the rhetoric’s for real…

David Cochran, speaking at the Applied Ergo Conference, predicts nothing will happen for at least 4 years.

Mood is mixed at the fourth annual Applied Ergonomics Conference held in Orlando March 12-15.

From his office in Raleigh, N.C., where he has set up shop as a health and safety consultant, former OSHA chief Charles Jeffress told ISHN that he wasn’t “terribly surprised” that Congress acted so quickly after his departure to kill the ergo rules that preoccupied his time in Washington.

It took OSHA ten years to develop ergonomics requirements for industry — and two days for Congress to kill them.

Forget about those October, 2001, compliance dates for informing employees about ergo risks and setting up a system for handling complaints.

Despite the battle in Washington over the ergonomics standard and its uncertain future, a number of ergo seminars and conferences are popping up.

Fort Worth-based Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Co. agreed in February to stop genetic testing on employees.

Efforts to overturn OSHA’s ergonomics standard will reach the floor of the U.S. Senate next week when a joint resolution of disapproval will be introduced.