At Confirmation Hearing, OSHA Nominee Pledges Employer Outreach, Enforcement
President Bush's nominee to head the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, South Carolina labor lawyer Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., told a Senate committee that if confirmed he would continue the agency's outreach to employers and also have "strong, fair and effective enforcement." Republican lawmakers didn't indicate opposition to Foulke during the Jan.31 confirmation hearing, but the nominee faced tough questioning from the panel's top Democrat.
In his opening comments to the told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Foulke spoke mostly in generalities, saying that if he's confirmed, "injury, illness and fatality prevention will continue to be the top priority of OSHA...."