OSHA, OSHB? Toe-may-toe, Toe-mah-toe?
To federal OHSA, or the New Mexico agency OHSB that prepared this report?
Hope I don't sound picky, in general I am The Grammar Police. jmho ymmv lrr
@Laughing Picky? Mos' def' not too picky. If that's a serious question, maybe this prompted it - Atty Hannah, speaking on behalf of the Rush Prod. Co., iirc, referred to OSH
A instead of OSH
B. I believe he misspoke.
OSH
A (Admin) =
fed agency, part of US Dept of Labor.
OSH
B = NM's
state Occupational Safety & Health Bureau, part of NM's Environment Dept.
Okay. Got ^ it? So how did NM state's OSH
B enter fed OSH
A's
sphere --- investigating Rust Prod. Co. set in NM; issuing citations; assessing penalties for workplace violations?
- Oversimplified: Fed subcontracts work to some st's, pays $.
-Briefly: Fed. OSHA law authorizes fed OSHA agency to operate workplace safety & health programs; to conduct workplace inspections & investigations; to issue citations; to assess penalties against employers. The state's programs must be at least as effective as fed. program. Fed pays up to 50% of st. program.
- Not so briefly: See * below.
my2ct.
FYI:
NM OHSB Rust Workplace Fatality Investigation
New Mexico Environment Department/
Citation and Notification of Penalty
https://www.env.nm.gov/occupational...22/04/2022-04-19-EHD-OSHA-Rust-Citation-2.pdf
Fun fact of the day
:
"
According to a report by AFL–CIO, it would take OSHA 129 years to inspect all workplaces under its jurisdiction."**
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* "
The OSHA Act covers most private sector employers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and other U.S. jurisdictions—either directly through federal OSHA or through an OSHA-approved state plan.
State plans are OSHA-approved job safety and health programs operated by individual states instead of federal OSHA. Federal OSHA approves and monitors all state plans and provides as much as fifty percent of the funding for each program. State-run safety and health programs are required to be at least as effective as the federal OSHA program.
The following 22 states or territories have OSHA-approved state programs: ...New Mexico...[7]"
Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Wikipedia
** Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Wikipedia
Wayback Machine
(from a 2011 pub., not vouching for current accuracy)
