Message #25468

[vegasadmin]

Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions.  It may be difficult for you to believe, but the fact is, neither my boss nor the foreman (we're a custom cabinetry shop with 7 shop employees and me in the office) care one bit about OSHA, either federal or state, requirements.  I will get little or no help from them, because they both believe and have stated outright that this is stupid, the rules are stupid, no one follows the rules, it's a waste of time, etc., etc.  Remember, they've both known for six months that these things needed to be done, never said a word to me about them, and never did anything about them themselves.  Boss is not beneath shutting down the company himself if he gets too fed up with stuff.  He's had many profitable companies in the past and he knows he can start another one if he needs to.  (As a matter of fact, he recently has, in a completely different industry.)  We did get some information from Nevada OSHA awhile back; I'll take another look at it.  (Since I had no idea we had to do anything other than pay a fine, I glanced through it and filed it when we received it.  Fortunately, I knew better than to throw it away.)  To make things just a little more complicated, when we were visited by the inspector, we had over 11 employees, now we don't.  Some of the things we were cited on may no longer apply to us, but I don't think that means we can't respond to them.  This morning, boss said not to worry about this stuff till we get another letter.  I'd rather get it done, because once it's done our file will be closed and if we get it done in time, it'll save us money (no more fines!).

Not worried or scared about dealing with the OSHA people (the inspector was nice enough while he was here and just doing his job), but some days I find it very frustrating to deal with boss and foreman!