Respirator fit testing. This means the entire work force in hospitals taking care of us during COVID. They stay safe by virtue of vaccines and respirators that fit securely such that they do not let the virus in. Doctors, nurses, techs, respiratory therapists, xray/imaging, and the people at the desk that take your information and check you in.
In addition, this is every trade profession that works with concrete dust, metal dust, sawdust, noxious fumes (exterminators, boat painters/sealers, etc), people who deal with drywall and insulation, and asbestos remediation.
Fuck all those people. Amiright?
Yeah, but consider how it costs the company hundreds of dollars. That’s hundreds of dollars the owners might be stuffing in their pockets instead.
I’m sure if they thought they could get away with it, they’d cancel requirements to provide PPE at all.
blue collar R voters: “hell i’ll take a little death and dismemberment if it means owning the libs”
“Why would I care about dismemberment? Do you know how much workmans comp pays for a pinky? I could put new tires on my truck with that.”
Sounds about right under the Trump administration.
Trump, the working class hero according to a bunch of rich media guys: “Workplace safety regulations are only for office dandies”
Republicans be like “I love it when corporations cripple people’s children for profit. also I love it when people go into medical debt”
If anything I’ll be only buying canadian made cars in the future.
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.
‘They just make it harder to do your job’
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?
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?
Chat, is it woke to not die or receive permanent injuries at work?
Its woke to have kids who can read and write, so I’m gonna say yes.
OHSHIT.
thin the herd tactic #42b
The American Road and Transportation Builders Association, the Associated General Contractors of America, and the National Asphalt Pavement Association, for example, issued a joint statement to the agency arguing that workers exposed to moving traffic during highway construction should not be protected under the General Duty Clause… Some groups argued that the new interpretation still doesn’t relax the standards enough. The Steel Manufacturers Association made a comment urging the agency to “more comprehensively prevent the misuse and misapplication of the General Duty Clause that we observed under previous administrations… “Although the preamble to [the proposal] suggests that the sports and entertainment industries are the intended targets of this rulemaking effort, the text of the proposed rule sets forth a non-exhaustive list of industries that may be subject to the proposed carveout,” noted a comment from North America’s Building Trades Union, a labor organization representing construction workers. And at the same time the agency seeks to limit the scope of the General Duty Clause, it’s using the clause as a justification for weakening other workplace safety laws. That includes its efforts to roll back construction illumination requirements, arguing that the General Duty Clause renders the rule unnecessary. “A specific standard for illumination is not necessary because a lack of illumination is a prototypical “recognized hazard . . . likely to cause serious death or serious physical injury” under the General Duty Clause,” the agency argued.
