{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2000-12-15-pt1-PgE2189-3", "2000-12-15", 106, 2, null, null, "OSHA ERGO-NONSENSE", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "ALLOTHER", "E2189", "E2189", "[{\"name\": \"Doug Bereuter\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", null, "146 Cong. Rec. E2189", "Congressional Record, Volume 146 Issue 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 155 (Friday, December 15, 2000)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E2189]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n                           OSHA ERGO-NONSENSE\n\n                                 ______\n\n                           HON. DOUG BEREUTER\n\n                              of nebraska\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                       Friday, December 15, 2000\n\n  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Speaker, this Member highly commends this December\n14, 2000, editorial from the Norfolk Daily News expressing strong\nconcern regarding the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration\n(OSHA) regulation on ergonomics.\n\n                             Ergo-nonsense\n\n     New OSHA workplace regulation isn't based on a completed study\n\n       The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration\n     calls its new regulation the ``Ergonomics Program Standard.''\n     The National Federation of Independent Businesses has a\n     different description: ``Ergo-nonsense.''\n       ``Scheduled to take effect on Jan. 16, 2001, it is, without\n     question, the most burdensome, expensive and intrusive\n     regulation ever to be imposed on the small-business\n     community,'' said Jack Faris, federation president.\n       We would have to agree. Ostensibly designed to help prevent\n     repetitive motion injuries, like carpal tunnel syndrome, the\n     new regulation will require employers to alter the workplace\n     in order to do so. It's a noble intent.\n       But the regulation assumes that employers aren't already\n     doing everything possible to take care of the health and\n     well-being of employees. The regulation also doesn't have a\n     scientific basis, seeing as how the National Academy of\n     Science's study on ergonomics isn't even completed yet.\n       It's also curious how this 1,688-page regulation was able\n     to be introduced and published in about a year's time, when,\n     on average, it takes OSHA four years to do so with other\n     regulations.\n       Because President Clinton allowed the regulation to move\n     forward, it now will take legal action to stop it. That's not\n     a sure thing, so business owners everywhere had better start\n     preparing for their own version of ``ergo-nonsense.''\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2000-12-15-pt1-PgE2189-3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 32.10769686847925, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}