PFA opposes OSHA toilet regulations
CAMP HILL The Penn
sylvania Farmers’ Association
(PFA) is opposing a proposal by
the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) to
require placement of toilet and
handwashing facilities within one
quarter mile of each agricultural
employee working in the field.
In comments submitted to OSHA
Pa. Dairy Promotion
Services Inc. to hire
state program director
ALTOONA The board of the
Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion
Services Inc. (POPS Inc), the
newly formed organization that
directs and manages the state’s
dairy princess program, this week
announced its plans to hire a
fulltime program director.
The program director will act as
coordinator of the entire princess
program and will chaperone the
Pa. Dairy Princess. She will assist
the county dairy promotion
committees in implementing their
programs by obtaining their
promotional materials and sup
plying them and their princesses
with information and incentive.
The program director will also
work with the board in planning
the Training Seminar in July and
the State Pageant in September.
“We’re looking for someone with
the initiative and creativeness to
broaden the princess program,”
said Mim Kauffman, co-chairman
of POPS Inc. “She should be a role
model for the girls in appearance
and have a congenial personality
warn
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this week, PFA said the proposed
regulations would, “...seriously
alter work procedures for the sake
of satisfying imagined and un
supported claims of detrimental
health conditions...”
PFA stated; “Pennsylvania is a
clear example of the illusory
nature of the assumptions made in
drafting the proposed rule. In the
northeastern part of the state,
as well as being affluent in public
speaking.”
Applicants are asked to send a
resume and references to Pa.
Dairy Promotion Services Inc.,
R.D. 3, Box 360, Altoona, PA 16601
before May 15.
At its recent meeting, the board
drew up a job discription for the
program director, discussed
outlines for the Incorporation’s
bylaws and reviewed plans for the
Training Seminar to be held at
Lycoming College, Williamsport,
July 18 to 20. The dates for the
State Pageant, which will be held
at the Marriott Inn, Harrisburg,
are September 23 to 25.
Members of the POPS Inc. board
are: co-chairmen Judy Diebold,
Blair County, and Mim Kauffman,
Lancaster County; Rita Kennedy,
Butler County, secretary* Pat
Miller, Dauphin County,
treasurer; Jeanne Peifer, Brad
ford County, seminar coordinator;
and Bev Minor, Washington
County.
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“The Pennsylvania fruit
growing industry, which also
employs many seasonal employees
in its operation, would also have
serious problems with the
proposed rule as drafted, not only
in terms of compliance but also in
terms of interpretation of the rule.
Whether the operation utilizes a
series of scattered and non
contiguous orchards or utilizes a
large single land tract, the fruit
grower must depend on the ability
to quickly and easily locate his
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many producers of fresh
vegetables do not grow their
products in concentration on large
land tracts. They must rather grow
their produce on a series of small,
noncontiguous, two-to-twenty acre
land tracts spread over a distance
of fifteen to twenty miles.
“To comply with the rigid
requirements of the proposed rule
in these operations, toilet and
handwashing facilities would need
to be transported several times
during the course of a single day,
resulting in the utilitization of
considerable work time to perform
such duties.
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personnel where harvesting is
needed the most, so that severe
losses from excess ripening do not
occur.
“The proposed rule’s mandate
for centrally located toilet and
handwashing facilities within one
quarter mile of all employees
would undermine the normal
harvesting procedure which have
become acceptable to both em
ployers and employees in the fruit
industry. To require these em
ployers to pack their employees
within one quarter mile of each
other would not only reduce the
rate of fruit harvesting but also
may seriously frustrate the efforts
of the individual employees
receiving wage incentives to
harvest the fruit in accordance
with their employees within one
quarter mile of each other would
not only reduce the rate of fruit
harvesting but also may seriously
frustrate the efforts of the in
dividual employees receiving
wage incentives to harvest the
fruit in accordance with their
capabilities, causing lower total
wages to be paid and, very
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possibly, rising labor unrest.”
PFA is recommending that if
OSHA’s proposal is adopted as a
final rule, states with established
field sanitation regulations should
be granted primacy in en
forcement.
PFA stated, “There are few
states where regulation of
agricultural employers for em
ployee safety, housing and
operation is more stringent than
Pennsylvania. Agricultural em
ployers in this state are subject to
state regulations which are often
tougher than their federal coun
terparts.” However, PFA noted,
state regulations are flexible,
requiring farm employers to
provide employees’ access to toilet
and handwashing facilities at least
once every four hours. “Such
option would more than fulfill the
intended purpose of the proposed
rule without burdening the em
ployer with additional costs in
purchasing or renting such toilet
and handwashing facilities or with
cumbersome procedures in daily
hauling and placing of such
facilities,” PFA stated.
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