Donald Trump’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration wants to exclude “inherently risky professions,” including those in sports and entertainment, from basic workplace safety protections. The rollback could affect hundreds of thousands of workers.
I’ve worked with so many working class guys who are totally against OSHA and safety regulations that they’ll talk about this as a win for them.
Oh the Whiny Guy™. Yeah its weird how like half of those guys seem to get injured and then I never see them doing physical labor anymore.
The thing that pisses me off is that yeah, safety is always going to be annoying and systems of safety are always going to be annoying. So what… they keep people safe…
You know what is annoying? Shoring up the wall to a dirt pit being dug on a construction site. You know what will kill you faster than you can possibly imagine? An unshored dirt wall collapsing onto you, it really doesn’t take much and geez how many construction sites are behind schedule and could really use that extra squeeze of productivity to just cut that safety corner just this one time (like the last time which was only one time).
Oh well, can’t look weak or afraid to the boys so just suck it up and hope you don’t get unlucky! If you said anything you might get fired for “other” reasons right?
‘They just make it harder to do your job’
My only real complaint about osha is that often there’s no actual investigation into who’s at fault, everyone present just gets fined. Theres no tact, no logic, just a fine hammer. We fairly recently got fined for working on a construction site where the plumbers didn’t mark an open pit while plumbing a new mop sink. We were the HVAC contractors working on the roof. How the hell were we supposed to know what the plumbers were doing inside the building?
On the other hand, to play devils advocate, every contractor who was on site is going to think twice before working on a site with those plumbers again. But it still feels increadibly unfair to be fined for something you had no involvement in and no realistic way of knowing about. Are we expected to keep tabs on what every other company on the site is doing and if they are following their specific trades regulations?