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The steel industry shares the federal government’s critical goal of ensuring safety and health at industrial workplaces. Â鶹´«Ã½ urges the President and the Congress to take the following policy actions:

• Avoid overly burdensome regulations that may misdirect priorities and create unnecessary costs for employers that prevent optimum workplace safety and health benefits from being realized.
• Ensure the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) commit to a cooperative enforcement approach, through which the agencies and employers work in partnership to advance workplace safety and health, rather than in an adversarial approach to enforcement and public shaming.
• Promote federal policies to support the development of workplace educational programs in advanced technologies that will prepare future generations for work in industries such as steel. A well-educated workforce capable of meeting the technological challenges of advanced manufacturing is essential to the steel industry’s competitiveness moving forward.