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JCole wrote:

jimlongley wrote:As the Brady bunch and their ilk are prone to say "It's an important first step."

I would like to see the OSHA ruling, is there text of that somewhere?

Is this what you're after?

http://www.nraila.org/media/PDFs/OSHAPa ... 162009.pdf

Not really a ruling, more like a Letter of Interpretation

Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for. It may be a "letter of interpretation" but the way OSHA operates, that one letter is as good as a ruling unless or until OSHA supercedes it.

What it does is take the "safety in the workplace" arguement down a peg, because any employer trying to fight the bill now has an OSHA statement to the effect that OSHA does not consider it an occupational hazard. We need to see to it that this document is at the very least readily available to our bills' authors if not to all of our legislators.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:

jimlongley wrote:As the Brady bunch and their ilk are prone to say "It's an important first step."

I would like to see the OSHA ruling, is there text of that somewhere?

I'm not sure what OSHA ruling you mean Jim. OHSA didn't get involved in this case and in fact refused to do so on request. (See page 11 of the opinion.) Have I misunderstood your question?

Chas.

I think you have. OSHA declined, which will be documented, along with their reasoning for declining. OSHA doesn't do anything without carefully documenting it, and that includes not doing something.

As the Brady bunch and their ilk are prone to say "It's an important first step."

I would like to see the OSHA ruling, is there text of that somewhere?