Occupational Safety and Health Act

And it was done with care and with a whole lot of scientific research Things like OSHA, OSHA rules when we're talking about workplace safety, that stuff can get overturned and killed in the courts.

You know, when we think of the rules around transportation, around, you know, airline safety, highway safety, all the environmental protections, you know, you have these big authorizing laws that, you know, like the OSHA Act is what created OSHA, right? And so...

Congress creates a, you know, rights and passes a law that creates an agency and says, you go figure out, essentially, figure out how to deal with workplace safety because this stuff gets very detailed and very complicated.

And so there's experts within these agencies, scientists and others, who do the work to figure out, okay, how do we protect these workers at a granular level, at small businesses, at large businesses, at all kinds of different industries, indoors, outdoors, right? There is a whole lot of expertise that goes into protecting workers, And doing so in a way that is economically not debilitating to the businesses.

But I wrote my first column, it was in Newsday.

They were my first client, and it was about the Occupational Safety and Health Act, OSHA.

Okay.

I can't think of a more boring thing to write a column about.

Okay.

So, yes, the OSH Act states that no objection that has not been urged before the commission shall be considered by the court.

And you're going to

repeat your brief anyway.

Those were the days when you could have bipartisan legislation that was actually pro-worker.

So Congress passes the OSHA Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

And they say when they pass it, their goal is to, quote, assure so far as possible every working man and woman in the nation safe and healthful working conditions.

Correct.