Trump will cause some of you to die from the heat - Robert Reich

[justaprogressive]

Friends,

Some 163 million people in the U.S. live in areas that experienced dangerous heat on Thursday, according to the National Weather Service — sending “heat risk” forecasts in major cities (including New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Atlanta) into the most extreme risk category through Saturday.

Part of the reason is the planet is warming dangerously, but Trump calls climate change a “hoax” and is encouraging more use of fossil fuels.

Especially endangered are workers toiling under the hot sun, or in stifling warehouses, or in delivery trucks with no AC.

Yet Trump’s pick to run the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, David Keeling, is weakening the agency’s own heat standards by removing specific inspection goals. OSHA’s Heat National Emphasis Program expired on April 8. Its proposed heat standard has been stalled.

For many workers, heat standards are literally a matter of life and death. Every year, workers collapse, suffer permanent injuries, and die while doing their jobs in extreme heat.

Years ago, when I ran the Labor Department, we had the toughest Occupational Health and Safety Administration in history, run by a truly committed worker advocate named Joe Dear. We made workplaces safer — reducing worker deaths and injuries.

Since its inception in 1971, OSHA has reduced workplace-related fatalities by almost 63 percent. It has slashed the rate of serious workplace injuries and illnesses by 75 percent.

But OSHA under Keeling is retreating from worker safety.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-is-causing-some-of-you-to-be

[JPK]

1. That's ok

The only ones going to hear the fat bastard are his fat followers. Two hour speech with 107 degree heat and noxious fireworks fumes should take good care of them. No coolers, $5 water and security that would rival the super bowl. Yeah, count me in...NOT! LOL.