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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2021 - 2022
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | June 27, 2022 03:06 PM |
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| From: | Senator Christine M. Tartaglione and Sen. Camera Bartolotta |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Public Workplace Safety Study |
| In the near future, we intend to introduce a resolution directing the Joint State Government Commission (JSGC) to evaluate and analyze the implementation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) protections for certain public workplaces. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 sets and enforces safety and health standards for private sector and federal government workplaces. Pennsylvania workers in other sectors, such as state and local government agencies and schools, do not have these same protections, and available workplace injury statistics for these workplaces are limited and inconclusive. To get a better understanding of workplace injury statistics, our resolution would direct JSGC to form an advisory committee comprised of public sector employee and employer representatives, academic and non-profit experts, and relevant executive branch agencies. The advisory committee would assist JSGC as they study what standards and regulations already exist for public sector workplaces, estimate the costs and potential savings from expanding OSHA, and gather baseline workplace injury statistics. This work would not look at state agency workplaces, as the Governor’s Executive Order 2021-06 will be examining those workplaces. JSGC would be tasked with issuing a report with its findings within one year of passage. Please join us in co-sponsoring this resolution to better understand workplace injury statistics in certain public sector workplaces. |
Introduced as SR338