Editorial: Is this paperwork
really necessary?
A new year is rapidly approaching, but
when drycleaners fire up the boiler on the first work day of
2002, there’ll be some “same old, same old”
to contend with — more paperwork from the government. For
the past three decades, drycleaners have been generally exempt
from OSHA’s requirements for reporting workplace injuries
and illnesses. Now we have been invited to join the party of
some 1.4 million businesses that need to keep records of
on-the-job mishaps. It is an invitation that you can’t
refuse, unless you never have more than ten people working for
you at any time during the year.
Once again the government bureaucracy has
decided that business owners have plenty of spare time on their
hands and lots of unused filing space, so they have come up
with a few more forms to fill out and keep on hand in the event
that a representative of the government might one day want to
look at them.
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