This year the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) chose poultry processing for a special emphasis program and is conducting comprehensive safety and health inspections at poultry plants. We understand OSHA’s role in helping keep workers safe, and we welcome them to come in and evaluate our programs.
However, the poultry industry is concerned about one narrow aspect of OSHA’s current special emphasis program and requested that OSHA discontinue a practice it has recently implemented.