Congressmen Andy Briggs has put forward a bill to abolish OSHA (link to bill below).
For those of you who don't know, OSHA is a bloated and corrupt corpse that is riding on the backs of American workers. It has been weaponized by the Deep State as a regulatory burden for companies to make them less competitive. Removing them will help restore America back to a time when we were the leading industrial power in the world. Its very existence is an insult to the intelligence and self-preservation instincts of American workers
There are some concerns here that we can address. First, won't this make employees less safe?
No, it won't. Businesses have a vested interest in keeping their workers safe—after all, dead or injured employees can’t produce profits! If OSHA were abolished tomorrow, companies would immediately adopt even better safety standards, because no employer wants to deal with high turnover, expensive lawsuits, or negative press. It’s simple economics: the invisible hand of the free market is more effective than the heavy hand of government. We don’t need OSHA because we already have laws against negligence. If an employer is really reckless, workers can sue. And if they can’t afford a lawyer? Well, that’s why personal responsibility exists. Workers will refuse to work for unsafe companies. This is the way it has been done for centuries before OSHA existed.
Further, OSHA infantilizes workers. OSHA forces workers to wear unnecessary safety gear that just slows them down. If someone wants to operate heavy machinery in flip-flops, that’s their right as an American. If we trust people to vote and drive cars, we should trust them to decide whether they need safety goggles.
Abolishing OSHA is not just about saving money—it’s about restoring faith in personal responsibility. Without OSHA, we would enter an era where businesses thrive and workers make their own informed choices. In other words, we would return to a system that worked perfectly fine before OSHA was created in 1971.
As a person working in safety; I think reform would be beneficial (the C19 BS was so much of an overstepping of authority). Abolishment of OSHA would put the American worker at further risk. It is the Government's job to protect the citizen of the nation - protect from foreign & domestic adversaries, protect from being taken advantage of in trade, protect from being maimed, injured, or killed by their employer, protect from being taken advantage of by companies with more purchasing power than the average citizen (e.g., monopolies, insurance companies) etc. - an oversight body like OSHA, if properly executed, can continue the free market, but still hold the employer responsible to ensure a safe workplace.
The company i currently work for is fairly safety-focused but only because there is a government obligation to be safety focused. all employers will fall into the productivity over people thought trap and 99% of the time, productivity wins out. If the company is able to pay out an insurance claim and continue to rake in the money they will, regardless of the consequences, if there is no authority telling them they have to provide a safe working environment.
Now, employees being retarded, doing stupid shit and then getting hurt, i don't see that as a responsibility of the employer and this is definitely an area where OSHA can use some significant reform.
If the company is paying out insurance claims, then they are fulfilling their end of the deal. If employees aren't satisfied with the level of protection that is afforded, they can get other jobs. That's the beauty of the free market, it is self correcting.