Abel the Shill
From a commenter:AbelYou sound like a schill for OSHA. You point out OSHA problems but you defend OSHA always in the end. You are biased and have no creditability. You can delete this post since it is...
View ArticleWhy?
I got this comment last week, and the commenter asks a great question:"Now we are getting somewhere! OSHA has actually had some great ideas over the last 30 something years, which even othre agencies...
View ArticlePoll Results
The poll results are in, and I have to admit I'm a little surprised by them. Not the "Is Abel a Shill?" poll, I kind of expected that, although I find it somewhat counterintuitive that someone would...
View ArticleThe Forum
Yesterday, after noticing that the last post has generated 34 comments, I decided that maybe we need to have a better way to discuss things than on the back pages of a blog, so I've set up a forum, the...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform
I have a question: What happens to workplace safety and health if health care reform actually goes through? Has anyone thought about it?Please don't jump in and leave comments about how health care...
View ArticleNo I Haven't Given Up
Anonymous said:"This has nothing to do with the post, but Abel, where are you? You have not posted in a month! We miss you...."Thanks, since I've never had an employer open up his arms and say "Glad to...
View ArticleDriving
First let me add my congratulations to the OSHA Underground for being named to the LexisNexis Top 25 List of Workplace related blogs. It's great that they got that recognition!Next, from a...
View ArticleBP
The Houston South Area Office issued BP a record citation today: $87,000,000. That's right 87 million dollars!Some people who support the current administration are going to jump up and down and say...
View ArticleThings Have Gotten Interesting
Some of you have been asking what happened to the OSHA Underground, and I think I've figured out why that site went down. I got this e-mail from Google, the owners of Blogger:Hello,Google has received...
View ArticleDr. Michaels
As anyone who follows OSHA knows by now, Dr. David Michaels was nominated and confirmed as the new Assistant Secretary for OSHA. Someone recently posted a comment asking me what I thought of Dr....
View ArticleDid I Miss the Memo?
Any one who follows OSHA's press releases has probably noticed a recent jump in the number of sig-cases (a sig or significant case is any OSHA case where the proposed penalty exceeds $100,000). I've...
View ArticlePlease, I'm Begging You
Please people, I'm begging you, stop with the political commentary, this isn't the place for it. All anti-government, conservative vs liberal, Democrat vs Republican rhetoric will be deleted!
View ArticleThose TV Shows
No, I haven't abandoned the blog, I've been very busy, those newbies can't train themselves. Actually, I'm not sure I can train them either. The kids right out of school think they know everything and...
View ArticleErrata
Sorry for the long absence, busy. I know, I've already used that excuse, and I've said I would try to do better, but I have been busy and I will try to do better.In my last post I said I wanted to have...
View ArticleOSHA Impact... Yes, Again.
People drive me crazy. They complicate things that don't need to be complicated and simplify things that can't be simplified. The graph I referred to in my last post was from an article by Charles C....
View ArticleBad Ideas
Every day OSHA sends it's staff an e-mail with a list of S&H/OSHA related links to articles gathered from the Internet. One of the article today really got my attention: UMW, Upper Big Branch...
View ArticleSigh
People constantly disappoint me. I have left the comment section open so anyone could post a comment without my interference, but I did so with the hope that people would be respectful, but the Trolls...
View ArticleSafety and Health at BP
What must it be like to be an industrial hygienist or safety specialist for BP right now?You probably thought by the headline that I was going to bash BP on their safety record like everyone else,...
View ArticlePAWA
PAWA, aka Protecting America's Workers Act, aka H. R. 2067. I finally had a chance to read through PAWA today and what I read was both good and bad. The bill has some 20 plus sections, of which I...
View ArticleNew Poll
Please note the new poll. Since I changed the look of the blog my Google Analytics are gone so I can't tell if anyone is even reading any more.
View ArticleYour Chance to Contribute
This is one of the comments from my previous post: "The problem with the slow exchange of thoughts and ideas is just that, it's slow. I think most people would like a larger volume of subject matter at...
View ArticleTop 10 Things Young CSHOs Need to Know
Below are my Top 10 Things Every Young CSHO Needs to Know Before They are Let Loose on the World. Never Lie. Beyond the moral and ethical aspects of honesty is a practical one, if you get caught lying...
View ArticleNew Poll
The last poll is closed and a new one has been opened: Should OSHA Exist? The last poll was close, 68 to shut 'er down, 67 to keep trudging on. Since the poll was really about finding out if people...
View ArticleOSHA PELs
So this morning I had a radical idea on how to deal with our PELs. Everyone on the planet knows our PELS are horribly out of date, they're from 1968 or 1970 (general industry vs construction) and many...
View ArticleCranes
I got a request to start a new thread on the Crane standard, but since I'm an IH and don't have much crane experience (and no experience yet with the new standard) I'm posting the request here in the...
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