As summer ends and attention begins to focus on the November elections in the US, this week I’m posting clips from my YouTube channel with an anti-health and safety, ant-regulatory theme. First, this political ad from the 1976 Malcolm Wallop U.S. Senate campaign in Wyoming. This was one of the most effective political ads in history, even thought it was not true. . Wallop beat the sitting Senator, moderate Democrat Gale McGee by a margin of nearly 10 points in a rare bright spot for Republicans that post-Watergate election year. At the time, an unwilling OSHA, prompted by a Federal Court, was holding public hearings on a proposed field sanitation standard for agricultural workers only. In September 1972, El Congreso, an organization that represents Hispanic American citizens, including agricultural workers, petitioned the Secretary to promulgate a field sanitation standard requiring access to drinking water, handwashing facilities and portable toilets. When nothing had happened by December 1973, El Congreso brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to compel the Secretary to issue the standard. In 1987, after more than 15 years and under Federal Court orders, OSHA finally issued the Field Sanitation standard which applies to any agricultural establishment where eleven or more workers are engaged on any given day in hand-labor operations in the field. OSHA standards require covered employers to provide: toilets, potable drinking water, and hand-washing facilities to hand-laborers in the field; to provide each worker reasonable use of the above; and to inform each worker of the importance of good hygiene practices.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:01:24 +0000
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