The Bush administration on Monday repealed a requirement that employers report repetitive stress injuries.
Labor unions had fought for the requirement, claiming that tracking repetitive strain injuries, also known as ergonomic injuries, would help identify potentially hazardous jobs and provide a better understanding of injury rates and trends.
"Just because the government is not going to require employers to track these injuries and just because the government is not going to enforce a safety standard doesn't mean that workers will stop becoming ill or permanently disabled on the job," [said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.]
"OSHA concluded that an additional record keeping column would not substantially improve the national injury statistics, nor would it be of benefit to employers and workers because the column would not provide additional information useful to identifying possible causes or methods to prevent injury," an OSHA statement said.
Right. If we keep statistics on the injuries, we might have to find out what's causing them, and solve the problem.
aWol says: "No statistics, no problem!"