People for Change: OSHA Voices from 1980 Videos

Added: Nov 21, 2008

From: markdcatlin

Duration: 4:48

This clip of OSHA staff speaking about their work is from the 1980 film, OSHA. The entire film is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1N48Z5HerA . Read about the experience of an OSHA inspector in Donald Lofgren's 1991 book, Dangerous Premises: An Insider's View of OSHA Enforcement. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University ILR Press, 1991). His book is drawn from his own experiences as a health inspector for the State of California OSHA program. He portrays the day-to-day problems faced by OSHA and OSHA compliance officers in its attempts to protect worker safety and health. His book explores corporate indifference, employer and employee ignorance, laxity on the part of many OSHA inspectors, and the inconsistencies that result when political appointees generate the procedures and implementation of the OSH Act.

Channel: Education

Tags: agency  compliance  federal  health  hygiene  industrial  inspection  inspector  osha  safety  standards 

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