Original sentence: In it's 30 plus years of existence OSHA has been able to secure only 12 criminal convictions.Industry associations and unions have resorted to court action to force OSHA to promulgate new standards such as the Hexelvalant Chromium standard.OSHA has also been criticized for taking decades to develope new regulations.OSHA has been accused of being more devoted to the numbers of inspections than to employee safety.This has been attributed to upper management discouragment of criminal cases through an unwritten policy that local offices not devote resources to criminal cases because they take years to develop
Edited sentence: By limiting resources devoted to criminal sanctions OSHA has assured itself that it will not have many criminal cases.Industry and union associations have resorted to court action in order to get OSHA to promulgate new standards such as the Hexelvalium Chromium standard.It should be noted that OSHA was only able to secure 12 criminal convictions against companies in it's 30 plus years of existence.OSHA has also been criticized for taking decades to come out with new regulations.OSHA has been accused of being more devoted to the numbers of inspections instead of actual employee safety but that is for your own opinion to decide.OSHA record is ultimately in the court of public opinion and many differing opinions are out there.That fact show an agency where upper management does much to discourage criminal cases because they have an unwritten rule.The unwritten rule is that local offices do not devote resources to a criminal case because a normal criminal case takes years to develop