So have the measures that the USA (Federal, State, and Local governments) caused more harm than good? That seems to be the debate at this stage in this pandemic. So as a profession we have been conditioned (hopefully this is changing) that the OSHA rates are a measure of safety performance. I think anyone working at a factory with 100+ people has heard of the OSHA rate – heck a lot of them know it because they are rewarded based on it!!! But imagine if your plant manager came to you and said… “I have been looking at our numbers and the trend is concerning”. You take a look at the graph and this is what you see on March 12th… the illnesses doubled from March 10th. Your boss asks you “What are we going to do?”
