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Show QBE1A Controls liiiiifod Senator Orrin Hatch co-authored co-authored one . successful amendment and voted for another that will limit the powers of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Adminis-tration in their dealings with Utah small businesses. The amendment gets OSHA off the backs of small businessmen busi-nessmen in Utah and the rest of the country who are safety conscious and have good safety records. Since it's inception in 1972, OSHA has been obsessed with annoying, an-noying, counter-productive activities, costing precious man hours and profits for mounds of paper work and nitpicking, frequently unnecessary un-necessary requirements. "Where OSHA's jurisdiction jurisdic-tion is needed, the amendment amend-ment preserves it. Common Com-mon sense OSHA enforcement enforce-ment can mean greater safety safe-ty in hazardous industries. While I would prefer a stronger OSHA amdne-ment, amdne-ment, this is the only type of change that has any chance to survive a House -Senate conference and become a part of the law," Hatch explained. ex-plained. The amendments to the Labor -HEW appropriations package will go to a House -Senate conference, where Hatch expects the measures to win approval. |