Who needs OSHA
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Maybe soon, homegrown Americans can finally enjoy similar working conditions to those that were enjoyed by many of the people we are currently deporting.
Elon definitely wants this. Cutting corners at the cost of increasing risk to human lives? Sign him up. You all just need to have more kids (to replace those of you that die) and work longer hours. Get back to work, slaves.
These fellas are just making America great again, boyz!
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is little more than a Mafia-style shakedown racket. It deigns to enter a workplace and find safety violations that lead to fines. The agency is proud of the “fact” that it is self-funding. Well, so is the Mafia’s protection racket. If a company disagrees with an OSHA finding, it can ask for a hearing . . . with OSHA itself. Then the company will be found guilty anyway, and the fine will be higher still.Like all such agencies that are founded to find improper practices, OSHA agents had better find improper practices. Otherwise, the agency has no reason to exist, and its employees will be out of work. Like medical practices, there is no settled safety standard. There never has been, and there never will be. Companies have a market incentive to provide safety in the workplace to keep good workers and avoid negligence lawsuits.
Employees are not chained to their workplaces and can leave for safer environments when they wish. The best outside safety examinations are performed by insurance companies who have a vested interest in reducing worker injuries that result in insurance claims. There is a healthy competition among insurance companies to keep fees and claims low. This is the free market at work.
The Case for Abolishing Regulatory Agencies | Mises Institute
Contrary to popular belief, regulatory agencies do not improve the quality of our lives, nor do they provide safety or security. They need to be abolished, as
And on a related note:
The Centers for Disease Control
The underlying rationale for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is that one federal agency has the ability to garner all the correct and legitimate medical information about a topic quickly, sift through the data, and recommend appropriate and timely action. On the face of it, this is a ridiculous undertaking. Medical information is scattered widely among scholars worldwide. It is impossible for one agency to know what is true, what is false, what is appropriate, or what is best.Medical knowledge evolves constantly. Medicine is never a “settled science,” and it never will be. (George Washington’s death was agonizing because his doctors followed the “settled science” that recommended leeches for ameliorating a serious chill.) The best we can do is to allow a free market in medical research and patient outreach, then let the individual decide what is best. After all, this is nothing more than freedom based upon self-ownership. This conclusion would be the same if those at the CDC were not corrupt but honest citizens attempting to honor their mandate.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is little more than a Mafia-style shakedown racket. It deigns to enter a workplace and find safety violations that lead to fines. The agency is proud of the “fact” that it is self-funding. Well, so is the Mafia’s protection racket. If a company disagrees with an OSHA finding, it can ask for a hearing . . . with OSHA itself. Then the company will be found guilty anyway, and the fine will be higher still.
Like all such agencies that are founded to find improper practices, OSHA agents had better find improper practices. Otherwise, the agency has no reason to exist, and its employees will be out of work. Like medical practices, there is no settled safety standard. There never has been, and there never will be. Companies have a market incentive to provide safety in the workplace to keep good workers and avoid negligence lawsuits.
Employees are not chained to their workplaces and can leave for safer environments when they wish. The best outside safety examinations are performed by insurance companies who have a vested interest in reducing worker injuries that result in insurance claims. There is a healthy competition among insurance companies to keep fees and claims low. This is the free market at work.
The Case for Abolishing Regulatory Agencies | Mises Institute
Contrary to popular belief, regulatory agencies do not improve the quality of our lives, nor do they provide safety or security. They need to be abolished, asmises.org
And on a related note:
The Centers for Disease Control
The underlying rationale for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is that one federal agency has the ability to garner all the correct and legitimate medical information about a topic quickly, sift through the data, and recommend appropriate and timely action. On the face of it, this is a ridiculous undertaking. Medical information is scattered widely among scholars worldwide. It is impossible for one agency to know what is true, what is false, what is appropriate, or what is best.
Medical knowledge evolves constantly. Medicine is never a “settled science,” and it never will be. (George Washington’s death was agonizing because his doctors followed the “settled science” that recommended leeches for ameliorating a serious chill.) The best we can do is to allow a free market in medical research and patient outreach, then let the individual decide what is best. After all, this is nothing more than freedom based upon self-ownership. This conclusion would be the same if those at the CDC were not corrupt but honest citizens attempting to honor their mandate.
Does anyone read these posts? I know I sure as shit don't.
Why doesn't it go to present day?
What about all the items we care about that can cause long term health issues but lot death via accident?
You'd have to dig a lot deeper than what you just did
But, but... Inflation and the cost of eggs, right?
Not important anymore?
Not important anymore?
There were 5,283 workplace fatalities in 2023 in the US (7.1 per 100,000 workers). So it pretty much leveled off at that point (1993).
Doesn't say much for how 'indispensable'
OSHA is, huh?
They aren't going to go down until we remove all child labor laws.
Good chart, nice find. And the other important thing to realize as the workplace injuries and deaths were going down is that the population and workforce size curves if placed on that same chart would be increasing making it even more apparent that OSHA is getting it done. Need regulations if you dont want one armed kids
I already stated that your graph only considers the narrow measure of work place fatalities.
OSHA does a lot more than just prevent fatalities
Get back to work, slaves. Elon wants to go to Mars.
Really??? That decreasing curve tells it all and if they get rid of OSHA then watch it go up even though we dont have near as many tough mfging jobs anymore
These are the things that working class Americans want and need. This is why they supported Trump.
Removing unnecessary oversight will reduce cost, specific to an egg farm you might see something like a delay in a kill off due to osha wanting to monitor whereas now thst day wouldn't exist and reduction if down time.
Baby steps dude.
If I followed all of OSHA's regulations to the T, the cost of a house foundation would have doubled or more. Page one out of a million page book of regulations...
You're talking out of your ass. Most ag productions are exempt from federal osha guidelines, depending on size of operation. And because this is a legislative initiative that stands no chance of passing, why waste the time?
I thought lowing the price of eggs was a priority. How many executive orders or legislative proposals have been put forth to address the price of eggs?
Why do any of you worthless liberals care about OSHA? You don’t work anyway.
Remove OSHA and allow Darwin to adjust the world population.
Just for the record, you do understand the cost of an egg has much more to do with the shipping and handling and selling of the egg not the egg itself right?
Manufacturing cost of the egg are minimal.
I don't know anything about egg production. I just know they're ****ing expensive and trump promised to lower the price.
Man Beheads Seagull...
With his bare hands. The most shocking thing here is that it didn't happen in Florida. I feel bad for his daughters, he sounds like a piece of work that took a break from other legal issues to create new legal issues. Dad beheads seagull with his bare hands after it tried to steal French fries...
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I've had some weird ass jobs.
But yo your point, grand scale of osha, yes, I am speaking out of my ass. I just know everybody hates them except the one guy who has his job because of them.
Remove OSHA and allow Darwin to adjust the world population.
I'm glad he found employment.
Well, I'll just have to take your word for that.
Bureaucracies are known for embellishing all the good things they do.
The curve showed workplace deaths being cut in half (slightly more, actually) in the years preceding the establishment of OSHA.
In the years since the death rate has stabilized.
Kind of like the graphs showing diseases on a rapid decline BEFORE the introduction of a vaccine to prevent said disease. 🤷♂️
