{"id":4140,"date":"2018-10-26T16:44:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2018-10-28T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T18:39:14","slug":"osha-inspectors-poultry-mar-jac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/10\/26\/osha-inspectors-poultry-mar-jac\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar-Jack: OSHA Inspectors &#8220;Are Not There For Us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4003\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4003\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/poultry_4-1024x676.jpg\" alt=\"poultry\" width=\"790\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/poultry_4-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/poultry_4-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/poultry_4-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/poultry_4-800x528.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Earl Dotter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earldotter.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.earldotter.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wrote earlier this month about a court decision in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/10\/11\/hard-times-poultry\/\">Mar-Jac case<\/a> restricting OSHA&#8217;s ability to expand inspections at poultry plants &#8212; even when the company&#8217;s log shows high rates of injuries and illnesses &#8212; despite the industry&#8217;s record of unsafe conditions.<\/p>\n<p>When conducting an inspection about a specific incident, you may recall, OSHA is only allowed to look at factors surrounding the incident and anything within the sight of the inspector. For that reason, when an OSHA inspector requested to inspect a worker&#8217;s locker where his tools were stored, Mar-Jac told the inspector that he could only walk through the plant\u00a0if he agreed to wear a cardboard box over his head to blind him to any safety hazards.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>OSHA&#8217;s job is to &#8220;find violations. They are not there for us, to be safety consultants.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/georgia-case-shows-limits-workplace-safety-inspections\/sRjUPSPujeduj8iByW7ZbO\/\">Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/a> published an article earlier this week about the court decision and its effect on OSHA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Asked why Mar-Jac didn\u2019t want the OSHA inspector walking through its plant, [Larry Stine, an attorney for Mar-Jac] told the AJC that Mar-Jac has its own safety personnel to conduct reviews and look for issues in an ever-changing work environment. OSHA inspectors are \u201cenforcement officers,\u201d he said. \u201cTheir jobs and what they try to do is find violations. They are not there for us, to be safety consultants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Look at that last sentence a bit closer: &#8220;They are not there for us&#8230;.&#8221; They&#8217;re just &#8220;enforcement officers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So who is OSHA there for?<\/p>\n<p>The goal of an OSHA inspector is not just to &#8220;enforce&#8221; the law. The law is not the end. The law it the means to the ultimate end &#8212; which is to protect workers.<\/p>\n<p>So the manager may be correct, they are not there for &#8220;us,&#8221; if by &#8220;us&#8221; he means managers and not the company&#8217;s workers (who, I guess, are not part of &#8220;us.&#8221;)\u00a0 And, of course, OSHA is not there for &#8220;us,&#8221; if he believes that managers have no interest in maintaining a safe workplace &#8212; with, as I just said, is the whole point of enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>So no, OSHA is not there to be a &#8220;safety consultant.&#8221; A company the size of Mar-Jac has more than enough resources to hire its own safety consultants before OSHA arrives to ensure safe conditions in the plant. (And smaller companies that can&#8217;t afford consultants can take advantage of OSHA&#8217;s free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/dcsp\/smallbusiness\/consult.html\">Onsite Consultation Program<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And indeed, Mar-Jac boasts that it &#8220;has its own safety personnel to conduct reviews and look for issues in an ever-changing work environment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So if those reviews are useful, and the company actually implements the results of those reviews, they should have no problem allowing OSHA inspectors to wander anywhere they want to go in a plant.<\/p>\n<p>But not according to Stine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy,\u201d Stine said later, \u201cwould you want to subject yourself to multiple fines where I would rather find it and fix it myself?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or, Mar-Jac workers and OSHA inspectors might ask, why would you fear multiple fines when you&#8217;ve allegedly found all the problems and fixed them yourself? And if you haven&#8217;t fixed them, why don&#8217;t you deserve multiple fines?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote earlier this month about a court decision in the Mar-Jac case restricting OSHA&#8217;s ability to expand inspections at poultry plants &#8212; even when the company&#8217;s log shows high rates of injuries and illnesses &#8212; despite the industry&#8217;s record of unsafe conditions. 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