July 23, 2012 at 09:58 PM
A progressive advocacy group is floating a wide-ranging blueprint for reforms it says would make OSHA more effective, including some changes that would require legislation but others that could be done administratively, such as a tougher approach to criminal penalties through broader agency use of the “responsible corporate officer” doctrine. Industry pushed back against the group's call for tougher penalties, with one attorney suggesting that a broadly expanded use of criminal legal authority goes against the grain of jurisprudence and that there is no data showing stiffer penalties to be eff