ATA Says OSHA Workplace Ergonomics Plan Fails Common Sense Test
Nov. 22, 1999, Alexandria, Va.--Statement of Walter B.
McCormick, Jr., ATA President and CEO on the Occupational Safety &
Health Administration's proposed ergonomic standard:
 OSHA's action flies in the face of
common sense. Everyone is for workplace safety but to regulate in the dark
without the benefit of sound science and medical evidence is to impose
huge costs on American business and consumers with no assurance of any
results.
In fact, OSHA's proposed standard would cost the trucking industry an
additional $6.5 billion annually without guaranteeing the prevention of a
single injury.
OSHA should wait until the National Academy of Sciences has completed
the first ever independent research of this issue.
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