Osha Outlook for 2010

摘要

As predicted for 2009, there was a major change in the way the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) operated. Even though Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis only had an acting assistant secretary of OSHA in Jordan Barab, much took place. Barab made several bold moves to establish momentum in setting up a new OSHA under the Obama administration. In an initial step-one of a more symbolic nature-he removed the pictures of OSHA staff managers from a conference room wall and replaced them with photos of workers who had been killed on the job. These photos are on loan from the family members of the victims of occupational accidents. From an operational standpoint, Barab has had areas within OSHA re-evaluated to improve their efficiency. He has removed quotas for setting up sites under the Voluntary Protection Program and established a budget that will allow the new Assistant Secretary of OSHA, David Michaels, Ph.D., M.P.H., to place OSHA back on track with the business of enforcement and standards writing in 2010.