Roles

OSHA Reform

OSHA has been criticized for overbearing regulations with insufficient gains in safety. In the construction industry, with its unique nature where every construction site is different, presenting a new set of safety issues, there ha

available scientific evidence on ergonomics to the National Academy of Sciences for peer review. Upon completion, the NAS would report their findings to Congress.

Another factor in the direction that OSHA will move with regard to Ergonomics is w

WASHINGTON UPDATE
OSHA
Still Needs
Reform
by U.S. Representative Cass Ballenger

As the founder and owner of a small manufacturing business as well as a Congressman from North Carolina, I used to make the claim that I was the

OSHA Reform

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even claimed that OSHA's tough enforcement was the only thing between most workers and certain injury or death. Of course this type of rhetoric disregards all facts and reason, but it succeeded in sid

Associated Specialty
Contractors Seek Reforms

Highlights from a
construction wide
conference in
Washington, D.C.

Twenty members of the Mason Contractors Association of America joined contractors from seven other constr

After a full day of briefings, ASC attendees had personal appointments with Representatives and Senators to seek support for bills such as OSHA Reform, Compensable Time and Estate Tax Reductions. "We met with some very influential members of Congress of