{"id":7477,"date":"2023-06-07T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T21:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2023-06-08T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:25:00","slug":"osha-ron-desantis-regulatory-leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2023\/06\/07\/osha-ron-desantis-regulatory-leviathan\/","title":{"rendered":"OSHA: Ron DeSantis’s “Regulatory Leviathan”"},"content":{"rendered":"

0<\/span>SHA is every Republican’s favorite punching bag. Including Florida Governor and Presidential aspirant Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n

In the 1980’s, Vermont Senator Gordon Humphrey accused OSHA of\u00a0 using ‘Gestapo tactics’ for making unannounced visits to work sites in their search for hazardous conditions. OSHA was the poster-boy of Newt Gingrich’s campaign against regulation in the 1990s.\u00a0 And OSHA’s short-lived COVID emergency standard that required all non-vaccinated workers to be tested was condemned as the epitome of authoritarian Big Brother government.<\/p>\n

All of this is odd, considering that OSHA is a tiny agency with a miniscule budget that has never come close to being able to fulfill its mission of assuring the safety and health of 158 million workers at more than 10.9 million workplaces.<\/p>\n

To put this in perspective, OSHA’s FY 2023 budget was only $632.3 million. EPA’s budget, by contrast, is $10 billion. Remember the money that Republicans managed to rescind from the IRS budget in the recent debt ceiling debate so that the IRS was less able to go after rich tax cheats? The amount rescinded<\/em> was $20 billion, more than 30 times OSHA’s entire annual budget.<\/p>\n

Now it’s Ron DeSantis’s turn. Because bashing government “over-regulation” is Republican gospel almost as holy as their new “anti-woke” obsession.<\/p>\n

Regulatory Leviathan<\/h2>\n

In DeSantis’s “best-selling” memoir The Courage to be Free: Florida\u2019s Blueprint for America\u2019s Revival,<\/a>\u201d he boasts of his hard-scrabble blue collar background, fondly recalling how he took a job as an assistant for an electrician in an electrical company for “a mere six bucks an hour” in order to work his way through college.<\/p>\n

But his American dream was soon threatened when he was allegedly sent home on his first day to go buy some “OSHA compliant” boots.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so I had to go buy a new pair and it cost me my entire first week\u2019s salary to buy boots that I didn\u2019t really need. So what it taught me was, you know, government was imposing something. I don\u2019t think it made me any safer,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cIt did make me a little bit poorer as a young kid trying to get by.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The job as an electrician\u2019s assistant “was also my first encounter with the federal government\u2019s regulatory Leviathan.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

After I was able to control my anger at this distressing event that almost crushed the dreams of a young American trying to pull himself up by his own bootstraps, I decided to look more deeply into DeSantis’s allegations.<\/p>\n

You know, the facts.<\/p>\n

Are Work Boots Necessary?<\/h3>\n

First, why does OSHA require protective footwear? Is it just more red tape imposed by faceless, unelected bureaucrats?<\/p>\n

Actually<\/a>, “Foot injuries are among the most common workers\u2019 compensation injuries, including breaks, fractures and heel injuries. The human foot and ankle contain 26 bones, 33 joints and more than a hundred muscles, tendons and ligaments, so it\u2019s no wonder injuries to the foot can be especially painful \u2013 and slow to heal.”<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> estimated in 2018 that there are more than 53,000 foot injuries per year leading to missed work days.<\/p>\n

So what are OSHA-compliant boots? For any kind of construction work, OSHA requires steel-toe boots to make sure your feet don’t get crushed in case you accidentally drop a heavy tool or brick on them, while also protecting your feet if you step on nails or other sharp objects. And working as an electrician, workers need non-conductive boots to protect against stepping on a live wire.<\/p>\n

So, yeah. Sounds like the OSHA boot requirement makes sense.<\/p>\n

Are Work Boots Expensive?<\/h3>\n

Did buying boots really cost DeSantis “his “entire first week’s salary?”<\/p>\n

Let’s examine that statement. First, he was being paid a “mere” six bucks an hour — which sounds “mere,” but $6\/hour was actually well above the 1996 minimum wage of $4.75\/hour.<\/p>\n

And what did safety boots cost in 1996 when DeSantis was 18 years old? Well, search Google 25 years later, you’ll find safety shoes ranging from $80 to $150. Let’s say he took home roughly $5 an hour after taxes. Electrical safety boots these days start and around $100 and up (while shoes are somewhat cheaper.\u00a0 Suppose he bought a boot for $100 a pair, that would come to 20 hours of hard labor for boy DeSantis. That could be half of a week’s work, if he worked a full 40 hours a week. Of course, maybe he was only working half time.<\/p>\n

But wait, we’re talking over 25 years ago. With inflation, how much would a $100 pair of boots cost in 1996? Well, it turns out that $100 in 2023 had the same buying power as $54 in 1996. But apparently footwear inflation has not been that bad. One website estimated that a footwear costing $100 today would have cost around $85 in 1996.\u00a0 So we’re talking a range of $54 to $85. That comes to somewhere between 11 hours and 17 hours.\u00a0 So unless he worked a very short week, it’s hard to believe that his boots cost him an entire week’s wages.<\/p>\n

Did Work Boots Make Ron DeSantis Safer?<\/h3>\n

What about his opinion that this government mandate didn’t make him any safer?<\/p>\n

Well, from centuries of experience and evidence, the nation’s safety experts think that work boots make workers safer. Not just OSHA, but private sector standard-setting organizations<\/a> like the American National Standards Institute and ASTM International (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials).<\/p>\n

But clearly 18-year old Ron DeSantis knew more about safety than the nation’s leading safety experts.\u00a0 Or maybe he just figures that because he never dropped anything on his foot or stepped on a live wire, he obviously didn’t need safety shoes.<\/p>\n

That’s kind of like working all summer on top of roofs and never falling off, so obviously fall protection is doesn’t make anyone safer.<\/p>\n

And what about those expensive smoke detectors and batteries that I’ve been required to purchase over the past 50 years? My house has never burned down, so clearly smoke detectors haven’t made made me any safer.<\/p>\n

Cry Me a River<\/h2>\n

DeSantis has never exactly been a friend of OSHA. After OSHA announced its COVID Testing requirements, DeSantis urged the Florida legislature to consider legislation that would replace OSHA with state oversight. The legislature actually gave the Governor’s office $1 million to study the issue, which came to naught when the Governor’s office realized that even OSHA state plans must adopt federal standards. (I could have told them that for only $500,000.)<\/p>\n

Bottom line? Yes, the requirement by the regulatory Leviathan to buy boots undoubtedly made young Ronny DeSantis “a little bit poorer” as he struggled to get by. Although not as poor as he now pretends.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, DeSantis should probably be thanking OSHA.<\/p>\n

His safety boots may have been the only thing that’s keeping Donald Trump from nick-naming the Florida Governor “Limpin’ gimpin’ Ronny DeSantis.”<\/p>\n

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