Worker Advocates Praise Tougher OSHA Stance On Corporate-Wide Settlements

OSHA's recently announced corporate-wide settlement with a New England grocery store chain generated praise from worker safety advocates who say it demonstrates a much tougher posture by the agency in trying to require continued hazard abatement throughout a company's operations. Organized labor points to one aspect of the settlement as noteworthy -- unlike past agreements, the latest pact does not contain provisions calling for new talks between OSHA and the company over citations if new evidence of hazards arises. An industry attorney downplayed the provision's absence, suggesting all corpor