Two important points need to be made. First, osha has in many ways been its own worst enemy with poorly thought- through enforcement strategies, historically weak loss reduction results and a lack of focus on workable solutions for ongoing problems. Safety professionals now feel the best outgrowth of osha was corporate paranoia of receiving bad press, leading to increased demand for safety engineers. Once selected, the contractor is encouraged to perform in a safe manner by incentives and disincentives that can directly impact their job's profitability. Historically, they were an attempt to level the playing field for various ethnic groups or other underdogs.
Opportunity is all anyone ever wanted.
We were tired of being invisible. We were tired of being told we were lucky to be employed. You got the job. I made no statements regarding the ability of a U.S. firm to be the sole contractor on a Mexican construction project or limitations on U.S. firms participating in joint ventures in Mexico.