Abstract
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration is the latest regulatory agency to be given new marching orders by the Clinton Administration. The agency will strive to increase protection of workers' health and safety and to decrease red tape and paperwork for industry. The heart of the plan for reinventing OSHA, announced at a press conference by President Clinton, is to get more companies to work harder at health and safety and to target OSHA inspections at facilities with the worst accident records. Says Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, We give employers a choice. Either they can subscribe to the old inspection routine in which they are inspected and fined, or they can develop a safety and health program with their workers to root out problems before they occur. The plan is based on a model developed in Maine called Maine 200. The 200 plants in the state with the worst workers compensation records were targeted ...
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