Giving the ultimate sacrifice for your bus!

[Dave5Cs]

The problem with OSHA is they are their own judge and jury and charge these outrageous fines that they can not answer to when asked how they figure them.
When I had workers in Colorado a worker who was trained not to use the top step on a ladder used one and stepped to the roof where the lanyard had to be attached to a special tie off at the ridge of the roof. He could not get to it without walking up the roof to do it, so he did. I wasn't
at the site when it happened but the safety officer was. OSHA shows up in a regular truck gets out without any fan fair and puts on a set of nail bags walks up and starts taking pictures (with the camera concealed in the pouch) of this guy (can you say entrapment). Then told the guy he was from OSHA and they get into an argument about why he could not tie off to the ring installed at the roof ridge etc. The guy left and the next week we all got called into OSHA and they said they were going to fine the company for him using the top step and then walking up the roof to tie off. It was a catch 22 on this. Then they said the fines would start at 45K and go up to 200K. Just another government over reach.  Yes there needs to be safety but this is backed up by insurance companies not wanting to pay compensation to injured workers.
Fines need to be reasonable and they OSHA should be doing the training the workers not the companies they work for because the rules keep changing and they find loopholes and raise the fine which in turn pay for their jobs in OSHA but don't go to the health or medical expenses for the person who did the infraction.