How Bush Administration Surpressed Work Injury Data..

[1171]

http://law.lexisnexis.com/practiceareas/...ion-Board/

"During the Bush years, Whitmore became increasingly vocal in criticizing the steady decline in the accuracy of mandated industry reports of on-the-job accidents and illnesses, as well as his agency’s growing aversion toward enforcing recordkeeping requirements."

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"Ironically, the Obama administration is now moving to adopt some of the reforms that Whitmore had long urged."

LexisNexis is a legal web site and has many members who follow labor/union issues.

[Bad Boy Bad Boy]

Well. if it needs fixing, then let it be fixed...

[1171]

OSHA Finds Problems Identified In GAO's Report Alarming

"The report identifies worker intimidation as well as a number of disincentives that may discourage workers and employers from reporting work-related injuries and illnesses. The report also notes widespread reports from occupational health practitioners who were pressured not to record an injury or illness."

Disinformation and information supression was widespread in many governement agencies during the Bush administration. I'm sure they will find many more intentional efforts to conceal information.

http://www.workerscompensation.com/compn...hagao.html

[chrischris]

For starters, why are so many industries "exempt" from OSHA reporting? I worked in education, and the annual OSHA form 300 that is required by private industry is not required by public entities such as school districts. This is a log where all work injuries are logged; not including names or private info, just injuries.

We had an annual OSHA inspection, with advance notice. That was it!

Worker's Comp Reported Injuries were kept separate. OSHA had to be contacted if a fatality occured, but nothing else.

[1171]

i don't how decisons that create OSHA Regulations are made.

just a wild guess but i would think they would try to match the cost of record keeping/enforcement with what injury outcomes OSHA can affect positively.
e.g.
some employments and occupations are more practical and esier to improve injury occurrances then others and those are the ones they want data in order to monitor.

[freebird]

Maybe Sarah will do better beginning in 2012. Whatcha think?

[Still in Limbo]

It's Bad enough that Injured Workers have to Fight Their Individual States when Injured, and Follow Their Laws, or "Rules and Regulations Open to Interpretation by the Individual Judges" such as We have Herein Pa., but now the Federal Govt. has been Caught Playing with the Figures!!! Pres. Obama has soo Much on His Plate Right now, I can't See this as being a Serious Situation for His People to Handle, so it Probably won't be Changed Anytime Soon! I'm not an Obama Fan, but with Unemployment so High, and the Health Care Issue, I can almost Guarantee that anything will Change soon with OSHA. As has been Mentioned before, and by Myself also, I Believe almost 80% of All w/c Cases are Handled the Correct Way, and Workers are Well taken Care of, it's the 20%, many of Us in that Category, that have to Wage the Fight for Our Benefits. So We are One-Fifth of the w/c Cases, and nowhere the Overpowering Percentage, therefor not as much Attention is given to Us!! We just have to Fight Our Individual Fights, and Help Each Other along with Either Moral or Educational Support,and Pray the Best Works Out for Us All!!

[1171]

free:
is some town advertising for a new idoiot?

seriously?
no, i don't think she'll even do well enough to get the party nomination. she already over-reached her high point by getting on the McCain ticket.

limbo: I agree. hopefully a reformed health care system will go a long way to correct the worst work injury abuses.

[freebird]

1171 Wrote:free:
is some town advertising for a new idoiot?

seriously?
no, i don't think she'll even do well enough to get the party nomination. she already over-reached her high point by getting on the McCain ticket.

limbo: I agree. hopefully a reformed health care system will go a long way to correct the worst work injury abuses.

Honestly, I am not a Sarah Palin fan buy I am definitely not a Obama fan by any means.

Bush made mistakes I admit this. When Obama is out of the white house, his mistakes will also be many and exploited by the conservative media. For now, Its the liberal media having a field day.

I feel the Bush bashing needs to end and this administration must rise to the occasion or they will be toast juice in 2012.

Obama and his staff new what hand was dealt them upon taking office but so does every new President.

The difference this year was President Obama was exploited as the Blackman who will save the world by Hollywood and the Media. Yhe American public fell for it and the "change" message. What a disaster IMO.

This will be the worse 4 years since President Carter.

[1171]

your perceptions are common.
Hoover ran into a similar set of public reactions when Coolidge handed over the already-in-motion economic catastrophe.
Hoover was overwhelmed and over-corrected trying to keep things from getting too much worse. Hoovers failures when using traditional responses allowed Roosevelt to make the more radical changes that were necessary and succeed.
While maybe Obama can overt the worst consequences of the failed leadership he inheirited, he likely will not have time to see the full effects of the turn-around. All he can do at this point is right the ship and correct the course. those who come after will get the credit.
In my opinion Obama's "Hoover moment" was buying into Bush's economic recovery program. Geitner could be his "Rumsfeld". we only got stimulus at the top. without wage stimulus, recovery is not sustainable.

this thread is really about correcting the OSHA debacle. if we go on to more political opinions we'll have to move off this board.
At least your Obama criticisms are more objective and less racial then many here; so its been interesting.