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OSHA, FRA sign rail worker protection agreement
More government more red tape. Sounds good but will prove otherwise. OSHA is nothing but trouble and should be abolished.
Oh yes! Please let’s return to the good old days before all this “gov’mint” intrusion in the workplace. Those wonderful years where you could tell how long someone was a switchman by the number of missing fingers. Or if an employee was killed on the job and his widow was lucky, the division superintendent would buy her family a ham.
Good for OSH and FRA ongetting together on this!! The carriers list not reporting and injury as a serious breach of the rules. So if someone gets hurt and reports it, his supervisors can screw him over. Since much of their bonus is based on the number of reportable injuries, they have the incentive and means to retaliate against employees. I’ve personally saw it happen several times on the railroad I worked for.
This is why the Harriman Safety Awards will no longer be given out. There were too many reports of certain carriers getting awards because their stats were skewed by retaliation against workers reporting their injuries (as prescribed by company rules.
Thanks you Dan P Olah!! You hit the nail on the head!! There are too many times that the railroad retaliates against the Railroader who is just doing his job and gets hurt. It says right in the rule book that you have to fill out a report if you are hurt! and they still try and bully you into not. I am so thankful for the Whistle blower act now that I have a CEO that likes to fire people for getting hurt.
Who protects the railroads from retaliation by workers?
Today there are still ignorant supervisors who fire an employee with an industrial injury. That is why this law exists.
When an employee is fired after being hurt on the job, the railroad must get out it’s checkbook and pay this person back wages, medical bills, lawyer bills and pain and suffering.
How stupid can the railroad get? Just take care of someone hurt on the job, and save yourself a bunch of dough. Duh?