Category: Healthy Workplace Bill

Over the years well intentioned people have suggested that OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) is an adequate and appropriate agency to police health-harming workplace bullying. If OSHA were to guide employer prevention and correction, the argument goes, then no new law (the WBI Healthy Workplace Bill) would be unnecessary. The phenomenon does seem to fall within OSHA’s responsibilities. We counter that OSHA is hopeless and helpless. By definition, it is a regulatory agency. And…