Blogger To Lead OSHA

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Wonderful news! Jordan Barab is a true champion of workers'

rights!

The Pump Handle

Blogger to Lead OSHA

April 8, 2009 in Confined Space @ TPH, Occupational Health

& Safety | by Liz Borkowski

We got some very exciting news today! The Pump Handle has

obtained an email sent to OSHA staff announcing that Jordan

Barab will be Deputy Assistant Secretary for OSHA and

Acting Assistant Secretary. Blog readers may be familiar

with Jordan because his Confined Space blog was for several

years the number-one online source of news and opinion

about worker health and safety.

Of course, Jordan also lots of work experience not directly

related to his blogging: He spent 16 years running AFSCME’s

health and safety program; served as a Special Assistant to

the Assistant Secretary for OSHA; was a recommendations

specialist for the Chemical Safety Board; and then became a

senior policy advisor to the House of Representatives’

Education and Labor Committee. (He mothballed Confined

Space upon starting the Committee job.)

Congratulations, Jordan! We look forward to having such a

steadfast worker advocate getting things done at OSHA.

The OSHA email is below the fold:

We are pleased to announce that Secretary Solis has

selected Jordan Barab to be Deputy Assistant Secretary for

OSHA and Acting Assistant Secretary, effective Monday,

April 13. Jordan comes to us from the House Education and

Labor Committee where he is the Senior Labor Policy Advisor

for Health and Safety to Chairman . Prior to

that,

from 2002 through 2007, Jordan worked at the US Chemical

Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

Many of us will remember Jordan from his first tour with

OSHA, where he was Special Assistant to the Assistant

Secretary from 1998-2001. Please join me in welcoming

Jordan to OSHA.

G. Shalhoub

Deputy Assistant Secretary

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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