ABSTRACT

Safety professionals should keep a careful eye on the proposed legislation and recent court decisions that potentially could impact the safety function, their industry, and the safety profession. In the past few years, safety professionals have experienced the historic election of President Obama in 2008, the Democrats possessing a ™libusterproof majority in the U.S. Senate, and one of the most substantial recessions/ depressions experienced by the United States in the past 50 years. As most safety professionals are aware, a number of bills were proposed, including the Employee Free Choice Act, which possessed the ability to substantially change the labor and employment as well as safety landscape in the average American workplace.