Deal to aid state in enforcing workplace safety

By Star-Advertiser staff

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 30, 2012

~~<p>State and federal officials have reached an agreement to help restore state workplace health and safety enforcement efforts to federally required levels.</p>
<p>The agreement, signed by Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Ken Nishiyama Atha, U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration regional administrator, outlines ways in which OSHA and the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations are to collaborate to meet health and safety goals and to enforce safe working conditions in the state.</p>
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State and federal officials have reached an agreement to help restore state workplace health and safety enforcement efforts to federally required levels.

The agreement, signed by Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Ken Nishiyama Atha, U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration regional administrator, outlines ways in which OSHA and the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations are to collaborate to meet health and safety goals and to enforce safe working conditions in the state. Login for more...