CSB Blasts Florida Gov, Lawmakers For Failing To Enact Public Sector OSHA Plan

Florida leaders are coming under harsh criticism from U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) officials who want the state to establish a public-sector occupational safety and health plan that meets OSHA requirements, in response to a 2006 accident at a wastewater treatment plant that killed two city workers and seriously burned a third. CSB wrote a letter to Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) earlier this month blasting the state government for failing to enact legislation requiring state agencies and each political subdivision to implement public employee workplace health and safety policies, practices an