{"id":2190,"date":"2011-07-07T06:27:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T06:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.empowerbpo.com\/blog\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2018-04-09T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T10:46:16","slug":"safety-2011-do-americans-care-more-about-chickens-than-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empowerelearning.com\/blog\/safety-2011-do-americans-care-more-about-chickens-than-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety 2011: Do Americans Care More about Chickens than Workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"DoOSHA Administrator Dr. David Michaels and NIOSH Director Dr. John Howard sat down with Diana Stegall of the American Society of Safety Engineers to discuss the focus of the agencies and the role those agencies play in the lives of safety professionals. Believe it or not, the subject of chickens came up.<\/div>\n
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During the panel discussion, a short film from OSHA, created to commemorate the agency\u2019s 40th anniversary, was shown. The film included comments from former OSHA administrators \u2013 such as Eula Bingham, Mort Corn and Thorne Auchtor \u2013 as well as Michaels. In some cases, the timeline of the film made it apparent that some OSHA standards were the direct or indirect result of workplace tragedies that made national headlines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to raise the issue of workplace safety and health to the national level,\u201d said Michaels.
\nCommenting on the book The Jungle, Michaels noted that as a result of the public outcry after the book was published, food safety standards were put into place. \u201cUpton Sinclair didn\u2019t write [The Jungle] to improve food safety,\u201d said Michaels. \u201cHe wrote it to show the working conditions for stockyards workers. …Upton Sinclair said, \u2018I aimed for their hearts and hit their stomachs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

To further make his point that workplace safety and health still doesn\u2019t have the national stage like it deserves, Michaels noted the salmonella outbreak in eggs last year, in which 380 million eggs were recalled.\u00a0 \u201cNobody talked about the working conditions on egg farms,\u201d said Michaels. \u201cWe need to convince Americans to care as much about workers as they do chickens.\u201d<\/p>\n

A large number of workplace injuries and illnesses go unreported, Michaels acknowledged, referring to a study that found that \u201cfor every injury reported on an OSHA log, there were three and a half that went through the workers\u2019 compensation system.\u201d Ideally, the numbers on the OSHA log and the number of injuries and illnesses reported for workers\u2019 compensation medical and leave benefits should match up.<\/p>\n

This article was originally posted at \u00a0http:\/\/ehstoday.com\/standards\/osha\/safety-americans-care-more-chickens-workers-0614\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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