OSHA has no control or inspection authority over product coming into the United States. OSHA would not be involved until the bad drywall was being used and they find out employees of an employer were being exposed to a health hazard.
They have no authority of it being shipped here or a private home owner using it and getting sick. It has to be an employer/employee relationship.
Another comment:
I’ve been in the safety and health profession for 43 years and worked for renovation contractors, heavy industrial and commercial contractors, heavy highway and bridge contractors, and for Federal OSHA for 12 years. What amazes me is I’ve never met anyone with silicosis or anything related to silicosis in those 43 years. I’ve asked all the other safety and health professionals in my circle and none of them have ever known or heard of someone with this disease. The industry itself has policed itself over the last 45 years and have made significant improvement in employee protections from silica dust and dust in general. We do NOT need a new regulation from OSHA that will cost the industry billions of dollars to retrofit or purchase new tools and equipment as well as health monitoring of dust and the engineering controls to make OSHA happy. This is amazing. OSHA’s resources can be much better served if they would concentrate on their top ten list and see what they can do about that. I have a better idea, why doesn’t OSHA do something to reduce fatalities that are not silica related and have stayed about the same since they became an agency. It’s always been 3500 to 4500 hundred fatalities a year and it’s been that for 45 years. These figures show you OSHA needs to redirect their efforts to the areas where the fatalities are happening and that’s not burdening employers throughout the United States with unnecessary regulations like the Silica Regulation for Construction.
Where was OSHA when the Chinese shipped all that bad drywall in years ago?
OSHA has no control or inspection authority over product coming into the United States. OSHA would not be involved until the bad drywall was being used and they find out employees of an employer were being exposed to a health hazard.
They have no authority of it being shipped here or a private home owner using it and getting sick. It has to be an employer/employee relationship.
Another comment:
I’ve been in the safety and health profession for 43 years and worked for renovation contractors, heavy industrial and commercial contractors, heavy highway and bridge contractors, and for Federal OSHA for 12 years. What amazes me is I’ve never met anyone with silicosis or anything related to silicosis in those 43 years. I’ve asked all the other safety and health professionals in my circle and none of them have ever known or heard of someone with this disease. The industry itself has policed itself over the last 45 years and have made significant improvement in employee protections from silica dust and dust in general. We do NOT need a new regulation from OSHA that will cost the industry billions of dollars to retrofit or purchase new tools and equipment as well as health monitoring of dust and the engineering controls to make OSHA happy. This is amazing. OSHA’s resources can be much better served if they would concentrate on their top ten list and see what they can do about that. I have a better idea, why doesn’t OSHA do something to reduce fatalities that are not silica related and have stayed about the same since they became an agency. It’s always been 3500 to 4500 hundred fatalities a year and it’s been that for 45 years. These figures show you OSHA needs to redirect their efforts to the areas where the fatalities are happening and that’s not burdening employers throughout the United States with unnecessary regulations like the Silica Regulation for Construction.