OSHA and musculoskeletal disorders
From the earliest citations to the almost-proposed rule and congressional recisions of the mid1990s, OSHA has struggled to address this major source of loss in the workplace.
Regulation of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) has proved to be a "long and winding road" for both OSHA and American industry. From the earliest citations in the chemical and luggage industries more than 20 years ago, through the meatpacking corporate-wide agreements of the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the almost-proposed rule and congressional recisions of the mid-1990s, OSHA has struggled to address this major source of loss in the workplace.
In its heyday, MSD enforcement under the General Duty Clause leveraged OSHA innovations, such as the instance-byinstance penalty calculation and the corporate-wide agreement, bringing multi-million dollar fines against larger companies with MSD problems. …
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