Posted by NCWayne on January 20, 2010 at 03:33:58 from (173.188.168.35):
In Reply to: Is OSHA sleeping? posted by 720 lyle on January 20, 2010 at 01:17:28:
I haven't read all of the OSHA rules in alot of years but safety compliance, for the most part, is a company thing. In other words OSHA gives a list of things that ought to be done in a given situation but if the situation differs then it is up to the company itself to be compliant as best it can. In other words the trooper doesn't work for the construction company, which falls under certain OSHA rules. Since he works for someone totally different, doing a totally different job, the percieved hazards and risks are different therefore the rules are different.
To bring the seat belt situation back into the deal think about this. Seatbelts are supposed to be a good thing, and are mandatory for drivers in many states. Personally I agree with the fact they are a good thing as my life was saved by wearing one in a serious accident, then again I was in another serious one where I wasn't wearing one and walked away with nothing more than a skint elbow too. That said, as important as they are made out to be when your riding on a bus, be it a school bus, grayhound, etc you aren't required to wear one, and in fact most buses aren't equipped with them to start with. Now explain to me how something that is designed to save lives is required for everyone in a car or truck but not required for our kids on their way to and from school. Like I said before it's not that the kids aren't considered important, it's that some pencil pusher/analyst/whatever figured out what the risks are and decided that in that case the risk wasn't sufficient to require the same safety devices present in other vehicles. Still though even though most buses aren't equipped with seat belts for the passangers they are equipped with belts for the driver. In this case they are designed not so much for the prevention of injury as they are to keep the driver in the seat, and in control, in the event of an accident.
Personally I don't understand it all but hey, these same government and insurance people making the seatbelt rules by determining what is and isn't good for you are the same ones that will eventually want to decide what you can eat at home or when you go to McDonalds for breakfast.....because they know what is good for you better than you know what is good for yourself........
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