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    Talking New OSHA Regs

    NEW OSHA REGULATIONS TO HAVE LONG-TERM IMPACT
    New OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) today announced new regulations aimed directly at the home and hobby workshop.

    WASHINGTON (AP)

    Phyllis Sharp, Director of the newly-formed Home Safety Compliance Division, today announced new OSHA regulations in response to successful lobbying by watchdog groups and the American Home and Hobby Machinery Manufacturers Association. The regulations, aimed directly at home workshops, hobbyists and “shade-tree mechanics”, are in response to an apparently exponential growth of safety issues surrounding the sale of commercial machinery to the private sector, resale of used machinery, and restoration of used and occasional vintage machinery by private individuals.

    According to Sharp, “These things are dangerous, and we are finding out that commercial and industrial manufacturers and service facilities, not to mention our own government, are selling these machines to private persons without due regard for essential safety features that we require of all workplaces”. Ms. Sharp was also quoted as saying that “there is no reason why a home workshop should not be subject to the same guaranteed level of safety compliance that our government provides to the public workplace.” According to Sharp, fines and registration fees will be used to substantially reduce the anticipated cost of the regional offices and inspection teams.

    In a brief press conference to present these proposed regulations, Mr. Morris Pschatt, Esq, general counsel for the Central States division of OSHA, stated that OSHA will create offices in each state for the purpose of inspection, tagging and tracking machinery sales. Sellers of all commercial-grade machinery will be required to transport machinery for sale to an OSHA field office prior to sale, where the machine will be inspected for the appropriate safety guards, decals and instruction manuals. Any machine found not to meet the standards will be tagged for scrap and the machine seller will be compensated at a standard rate per pound, according to Pschatt. When asked by one reporter about private sales, Mr. Pschatt responded that the OSHA Residential Teams inspectors would be tracking eBay, craigslist and classified sales in order to provide “comprehensive safety coverage”.

    In addition, Pschatt remarked, OSHA Residential Teams field inspectors will be periodically making spot inspections to home and hobby workshops to ensure safety compliance, similar to existing commercial and industrial compliance regulations. All home-shop machinery will be required to be tagged and registered with OSHA, and any machine not having the proper guards in place, decals visible and legible, and instructions readily available will be tagged and confiscated. Furthermore, personal safety gear, including eyewear, hearing protection and head gear will be required of all home and hobby workers.

    The AHHMMA is represented in Washington by domestic and overseas manufacturers and importers of woodworking, metalworking and automotive equipment.
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    Someone tried this stunt on another forum a few hours ago

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    Good Lord, we can only hope this is a joke. With all the problems our country is facing right now it would really tick me off to learn we are wasting money on something like this. Can you imagine what something like this would cost if it were true? Although it does sound like something stupid our government would do. They have a track record ya know!!
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    This will be interesting.

    I wonder if woodworkers are as parnoid a bunch as the gun groups!!


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    No offense to the gun nuts, I happen to be one (gun nut) myself, just one with a lower level of paranoia than some.

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    Well, it is April Fool's Day. That's as good of an attempt as any I've seen. Just went too far to be believable, however.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Henderson View Post
    Well, it is April Fool's Day. That's as good of an attempt as any I've seen. Just went too far to be believable, however.

    Mike
    Mike, it certainly does sound like an April Fool's joke. It would have been more believable if they had simply stopped at the "sales of industrial machinery" point.

    I'm a member of a BMW motorcycle club, and yesterday they ran a press release of BMW purchasing the majority stake in Harley Davidson, with Berkshire Hathaway holding the remainder.

    It was very difficult to determine if it was a hoax, as BH had recently loaned HD $300 million. and BMW had purchased Husqavarna recently to diversify their product line.

    Some of these gags are very creative, and entertaining...Rod.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rod Sheridan View Post
    Mike, it certainly does sound like an April Fool's joke. It would have been more believable if they had simply stopped at the "sales of industrial machinery" point.

    I'm a member of a BMW motorcycle club, and yesterday they ran a press release of BMW purchasing the majority stake in Harley Davidson, with Berkshire Hathaway holding the remainder.

    It was very difficult to determine if it was a hoax, as BH had recently loaned HD $300 million. and BMW had purchased Husqavarna recently to diversify their product line.

    Some of these gags are very creative, and entertaining...Rod.
    A good lie, humorous or not, always contains the ring of truth. Unfortunately, this one, while outrageous on it's face, contains more than a bit of truth.
    However, I have no fear. I've already installed guards on my mallets and hammers, dulled all my pencils and resolved to finish all my projects with Kool Aid.
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    Several years ago the front page of a Downriver community newspaper had a story that they were going to wrap chains around Grosse Isl (an island community in the Detroit river) and move it upstream. My sister-in-law believed it.
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    I have super-glued work gloves to all my chisel handles and my mallet. They cannot be used without inserting my hands into the gloves. I am now in compliance and can safely operate these tools.

    I have attached a "Jetson's" style dog walker as the power source for all my used-to-be power tools. I just have to get a dog and I can use them again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by glenn bradley View Post
    I have super-glued work gloves to all my chisel handles and my mallet.

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    That's good Glenn, now you'll be able to hit your hand with the mallet more often now that they're fixed in place.

    Regards, Rod.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rod Sheridan View Post
    Mike, it certainly does sound like an April Fool's joke. It would have been more believable if they had simply stopped at the "sales of industrial machinery" point.

    I'm a member of a BMW motorcycle club, and yesterday they ran a press release of BMW purchasing the majority stake in Harley Davidson, with Berkshire Hathaway holding the remainder.

    It was very difficult to determine if it was a hoax, as BH had recently loaned HD $300 million. and BMW had purchased Husqavarna recently to diversify their product line.

    Some of these gags are very creative, and entertaining...Rod.
    Did you also see that they are also going to offer magnetic towing on future cars?? http://commercial-archive.com/ooh/bm...ology-print-uk

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gene Howe View Post
    A good lie, humorous or not, always contains the ring of truth. Unfortunately, this one, while outrageous on it's face, contains more than a bit of truth.
    However, I have no fear. I've already installed guards on my mallets and hammers, dulled all my pencils and resolved to finish all my projects with Kool Aid.

    I'm interested in the portions of truth you mention.

    Could you share the details?

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