On May 14, the Coalition for Workplace Safety sent a letter to the House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections in light of their hearing, “Reclaiming OSHA’s Mission: Ensuring Safety without Overreach.” The letter points to our past comments on two regulations issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) during the Biden administration – the Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings Proposed Rule and the Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process Final Rule.
As our letter explains, “the heat rule is inflexible and unworkable and will hit small businesses and their employees particularly hard, while the worker walkaround rule is more likely to interfere with OSHA inspections than enhance them.”