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When an inspector from the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) tried to walk unannounced into Ferrol G. ("Bill") Barlow's shop in Pocatello, Idaho, almost three years ago, the irritated proprietor refused him entry. Barlow, an electrical and plumbing subcontractor, cited the Bill of Rights, a copy of which hangs on his office wall, and particularly the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable searches" of private property. The inspector, Barlow insisted, needed a search warrant to inspect his place of business. After Barlow ignored a federal judge's order to allow the inspector...
...irony, says Weidenbaum, is that Government freely violates its own regulations. "Federal installations are among the worst environmental offenders. OSHA offices fail to meet OSHA safety standards. And think of Social Security and the Civil Service Retirement Fund being subjected to the standards of ERISA. They would flunk...
...same is true if you go into the neighborhood delicatessen or laundry and ask about the Occupational Safety and Health Act. 'Hey, are you obeying OSHA?' And the guy behind the counter sneers, 'Osha, gosha, forget it!' If the majority of people ignore the law, it will stop the vitality of our country-the voluntarism on which it is built...
...Government gives with one hand and takes with the other. Judging from the figures in one recent study by the American Council on Education, it costs higher education some $2 billion a year to carry out such federally mandated programs as affirmative action and regulations issued by agencies like OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration). And there are incidental expenses. A single affirmative-action study at Berkeley, for example, generated 50,000 computer calculations. Complains Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California system and now Chairman of the Carnegie Council Policy Studies in Higher Education: "Such details...
Federal health inspectors examined the plant in 1967 and 1970, finding numerous violations of health standards. In 1971, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the company. Inspectors did not wear protective equipment such as respirators for fear of alarming the plant's employees...