Las Vegas Sun

Nevada OSHA gets exposed and what do they do? Instead of a little introspection and analysis of what created their current predicament, they go with a knee-jerk reaction, totally oblivious (as usual) to the long term or even short term ramifications. In this rush to ignore any facts presented to them and show how tough they are, they’ve set themselves up for failure at the review board. Since Nevada OSHA does more than twice the inspections that other states do (mostly fluff), many cases don’t get the time they deserve. This has previously been acceptable, since they never send their inspectors to the review board. In turn, inspectors have not been in the habit of building legal quality cases. If they suddenly send a bunch of cases which were built before the media light was so harshly shone on OSHA, the results will be laughable. Bet on these hard-line stances to soften. Or, maybe they’ll actually stand up to little Reliable Steel. After all, it’s not like they are Perini or Boyd where citations are deleted or penalties are cut in half. No, Reliable Steel, with little history of non-compliance, won’t get one dollar of wiggle room. OSHA – don’t listen to contractors, casinos, governors or the media - just do what’s right and document it. It really is that simple.