Costello To Testify Against Proposed OSHA Regs
Oklahoma labor commissioner opposes proposed OSHA regulation
By Randy Ellis
Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello plans to travel to Washington on Thursday to testify against a proposed federal regulation that U.S. labor officials have touted as a way to improve workplace safety.
The proposal would require about 250,000 U.S. businesses to electronically submit their workplace injury and illness reports to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration so the information could be posted online.
Costello says it is unproven that making that information available to the public would improve public safety and he expects it to have bad, unintended consequences.
“What is coming out under the federal government today is something which is unprecedented and unproven and, in my opinion, universally unwelcomed,” said Costello, euphemistically referring to the proposed regulation as “naming and shaming.”