Mowing OSHA is watching

[jake98]

Doesnt this put you in mind of the gustapo? I am all for safety,but come on.....fines for having paint in a coffee can? hardhat in a classroom installing blank off plates? geezus....whens the revolution?

Unelected bureaucrats, pushing pencils is one thing, levying fines is quite another..

 

[JB4310]

Doesnt this put you in mind of the gustapo? I am all for safety,but come on.....fines for having paint in a coffee can? hardhat in a classroom installing blank off plates? geezus....whens the revolution?

I don't think there will be a revolution over OSHA but it is costing all of us more than just money. it's making us weaker that's for sure. We use to build dams and bridges in a year or two, now it takes 10 years to paint a bridge.

I'm the one that got the fine for latex paint in an unlabeled container, the hard hat in classroom doesn't surprise me :laughing:
The little runt that got me, the first thing he did when he got out of his car was put a white hard hat on, I knew right away this was gonna be trouble

They don't care what the owner or his family member does, we can do the most dangerous tasks and they have no jurisdiction, but if you have 1 non family employee then you have to comply. MSDS on the job-site for any kind of material on the job, written hazard communication program for every situation and a documented verbal hazard communication program for every work day.

There is not a job-site that can fully comply, it's just about impossible. The only thing that keeps things running is the fact the inspections at the federal level are so rare.

JB

 

[Short Game]

Unelected bureaucrats, pushing pencils is one thing, levying fines is quite another..

Reminds me of my navy days. It was said that the most dangerous thing in the world was, "an ensign with a pencil."

 

[evan price]

I used to do OSHA abatements. There are some companies that are just begging to be fined. I worked a job at a large auto-parts factory where the maintenance department moved around lines and perimeter guarding whenever they needed to without any supervision. Lockout-Tagout was a joke, most machines had 6-10 discrete power sources and nobody ever locked out. This all changed when a 3rd shift maintenance man got disemboweled and had part of his hand crushed by an industrial robot overnight in an otherwise empty plant and nearly died trying to get to the only other employee- the night watchman- for help. He survived but he had a heckuva scar.

That said, using an agency whose intended purpose was to improve workplace conditions instead as a revenue generation source if plain wrong, on the same level as cops with speed traps wrong.

The small mower company, just set yourself up as a simple LLC, when OSHA screws you over, have another spare LLC ready to buy your assets and close shop.