[ranxer]

ok, so there's criticism of osha..

there's beurecratic problems at osha .. i don't have any experience with that..

I do however have experience onthe workers end of things..

while i was in the military i was told to work in INSANE conditions such as the paint locker on the bow of a ship where the chemical smell told me that i was getting brain damage in 15 minutes.. i REFUSED to work under those conditions .. and had osha to call on to defend me..
on my next job i worked with electrical equipement that was bad for my health under osha regulations but had no smell or confined quarters to really complain about but when the osha inspectors were scheduled to visit i and several others had a freaking TON of work to do to get the place up to osha snandards..

the only complaint i had of osha under the conditions as a laborer was that thier rules of compliance were based on common sense.. so if i had a brain i wouldn't have a problem with the chemicals i was working with.. the osha regs it seemed to me only protected those without common sense for the most part.. other than that they made me protect myselft from errors that i (an adept individual with intelligence and common sense) would have no problem avoiding.

so from my experience osha did a good job defending moronic idiots from killing themselves and costing whatever company they worked for a lot of downtime and hospitization.